SHORT -CLUSTER TYPES 



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A closely related form, common in open and dryish 

 places, is a bush generally only two or three feet 

 high, bearing a short 

 cluster of small 

 roundish mostly loose- 

 grained fruits. The 

 varieties of this type 

 have a strong ten- 

 dency to produce a 

 few later fruits on 

 the tips of the new 

 growth. These late 

 fruits often ripen as 

 late as the first week 

 in September. The 

 leaflets are broader, 

 more abruptly 

 pointed, usually 

 thicker and shorter- 

 stalked, and generally 

 very coarsely and un- 

 evenly serrate or even 

 jagged. This is the 

 commonest form of 

 blackberry in gar- 

 dens, and includes 

 such varieties as New 

 Rochelle or Lawtou, 

 Kittatinny, Snyder, 

 Agawam, Erie, and 

 Minnewaski. Typical 

 clusters of this group are shown in Figs. 61, 62. It 

 is comparatively few -fruited, leafy, the stems oblique 



