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original plants about one -ninth of it was exhibited 

 at the Association of American Nurserymen at Wash- 

 ington, in June, 1886. This specimen bore 978 ber- 

 ries. E. Y. Teas, now of Irvington, Ind., appears to 

 have been the first to figure the Lucretia and to 

 offer plants for sale. 



The Lucretia, like all dewberries, has made its 

 way into popular favor slowly. People have not yet 

 learned how to grow these fruits easily and success- 

 fully. Many persons laboriously tie them up on wire 

 screens (Fig. 72) or trellises, but the best results 

 considering the outlay are obtained when the canes 

 are tied to stakes. In this fashion, they are man- 

 aged more easily than blackberries, and the earliness 

 of the fruit ripening a week or two in advance of 

 the blackberries makes the plant a useful one to the 

 enterprising grower of small fruits. 



Another prominent dewberry is the Bartel; and 

 it enjoys the distinction of being the first dewberry, 

 as far as I know, to receive a name. It was brought 

 to notice some time early in the seventies by Dr. 

 Bartel of Huey, Clinton county, southern Illinois. 

 The story goes that the plants appeared in an old 

 corn-field upon his farm, and some of the berries 

 were so large that he conceived the idea of selling 

 plants. He procured a lithograph of the berries, 

 which did ample justice to the fruit, described the 

 methods of growing them, and for a time disposed of 

 considerable stock. The introducer was an old man at 

 this time, and was one of those clever and picturesque 

 individuals who often lend an interest to a neighbor- 

 hood. The first printed record of this berry appeared 

 in December, 1875, in Purdy's "Fruit Recorder" 



