CALIFORNIA FRUITS: HOW TO GROW THEM 



for more than ten years, plants being meantime given to Mr. James 

 Waters, of Watsonville, who grew it on a commercial scale and was 

 gratified at the results of his marketing of the fruit. The variety was 

 first given to the public through the University of California in 1893 

 and has proved a most valuable fruit in all parts of California not 

 only as fresh fruit but as a source of juice and jam products which 

 have unique characters. The Loganberry is an exceedingly robust 

 grower, and has unique foliage 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. The flavor is unique and peculiar, and gives 

 to many tastes suggestions of the combination of blackberry and rasp- 

 berry flavors. The culture of the Loganberry is like that of the dew- 

 berry DO th 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 is grown for a trade which 

 prefers a less sharp acid than that of the Loganberry. It originated 

 with Mr. Luther Burbank, of Santa Rosa, and is a cross between 

 the California dewberry and a red raspberry. 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 Loganberry. 



Tnellising 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 arrangement 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 ends of the cross- 

 pieces. This gives a nice oval surface with three times the room as having 

 the wires one above the other on the post. The new growth is allowed to 

 run on the ground all summer while last year's wood on the trellis is 

 bearing a crop. The new growth is not much in the way, for its laterals 

 do not develop till picking is over. Immediately after this or any time up 

 to the next spring, the canes which bore this year are cut en masse from 

 their low trellis and the new growth is lifted from the ground, spread on 

 the trellis and tied securely 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 the regions 



ijacent to the coast and in thermal belts in the interior, the straw- 



erry plant blooms and bears almost continuously, providing proper 



oisture conditions are maintained in the soil. There are, however, 



two or three more or less well-defined crops. The occurrence of 



