418 CALIFORNIA FRUITS: HOW TO GROW THEM 



public through the University of California in 1893 and has since then 

 been propagated by nurserymen and sold in large quantities. It has 

 proved a most valuable fruit in all parts of California, and has com- 

 manded the attention of pomologists and growers all over the world. 

 The Loganberry is an exceedingly robust grower, and has unique foli- 

 age and cane growth as well as fruit. The fruit is strikingly large and 

 handsome; sometimes an inch and a quarter long, with the shape of a 

 blackberry, and sometimes the hue of a dark red raspberry. Its flavor 

 is unique and peculiar, and gives to many tastes suggestions oithe com- 

 bination of blackberry and raspberry flavors. The culture of the Lo- 

 ganberry is like that of the dewberry both in growth and propagation, 

 rooting readily from cane tips without covering, unless many plants are 

 desired and then a covered cane will root at each joint. 



The Phenomenal is a hybrid which has recently been largely grown 

 for a trade which prefers a less sharp acid than that of the Loganberry. 

 It is one of the notable achievements of Mr. Luther Burbank, of Santa 

 Rosa, and is a cross between the California dewberry and a red rasp- 

 berry. It is exceedingly large, bright crimson, very productive and of 

 delicious flavor. The fruit comes in large clusters and single berries 

 have weighed four to the ounce. In shipping it holds shape and color 

 well. The Phenomenal is counted about one week later than the Logan- 

 berry. 



Trellising for Hybrid Berries. The discussion and methods for 

 training the trailing blackberries, already given at much length in this 

 chapter, apply also to the Loganberry and Phenomenal. A special ar- 

 rangement commended for the Loganberry is the following : 



Plant the rows eight feet apart and vines four feet apart in the row. Use 

 common fence posts for trellising, setting them sixteen or twenty feet apart, 

 four feet high after they are set ; then measure from top of post one foot down 

 and nail a two-foot crosspiece ; use three wires, stapling one to the top of the 

 posts and one on each side to the end of the crosspieces. This gives a nice oval 

 surface with three times the room as having the wires one above the other on 

 the post. In the spring raise the vines and distribute them evenly and tie them 

 firmly to the wires. 



THE STRAWBERRY 



"Strawberries all the year round" is the trite expression by which 

 the charms of the California climate are characterized. It is no fiction, 

 for in the wonderfully-even climate of regions adjacent to the coast and 

 in thermal belts in the interior, the strawberry plant blooms and bears 

 almost continuously, providing proper moisture conditions are main- 

 tained in the soil. There are, however, more or less well-defined crops, 

 and "strawberries all the year" does not mean a uniform supply ; nor 

 does it mean that everywhere in California can one expect such constant 

 fruiting. In the very hot interior situations the plant rebels against the 

 atmospheric conditions of midsummer, even though the ground be 

 moist; and in frosty places the plant becomes dormant during the 

 wintry portion of the year. The conditions of constant growth and 

 bearing are moderation of temperature and of atmospheric and soil 

 moisture throughout the year. 



