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rather than spreading, the topmost fruits more or 

 less aggregated. The fruits are rounder than in the 

 Long -cluster group, the drupelets larger and mostly 

 softer and less uniform in arrangement. This type I 

 have designated the "Short -cluster Blackberries." 



i ig. 61. Snyder. One of the short-cluster types. Full size. 



This group is the most prolific in cultivated varieties. 

 One of the recent garden forms is shown in Fig. 63. 

 A third type of blackberry comprises dwarf, strict, 

 leafy bushes, generally growing on dryish soils from 

 New Brunswick to Kansas and the Gulf, bearing the 

 flowers in short leafy clusters (Fig. 64), the leaflets 



