208 SMALL FRUIT CROPS 



The Loganberry. - - This is a hybrid berry of considerable 

 value for the home garden in some localities. It succeeds 

 best in California where it originated, but has been grown 

 in the New England and Middle States with careful winter 

 protection. The fruit is a rich dark red color when ripe, 

 an inch or more in length, and has the flavor of a black- 

 berry. 



The Dewberry. The stems of the dewberry plant show a tend- 

 ency towards trailing, and are not so erect as the blackberry 

 stems. Its fruit is of fewer grains and ripens earlier than the 

 blackberry. The blackberry has from three to five ovate leaflets, 

 while the dewberry has from three to seven small doubly-toothed 

 leaflets. The dewberry is especially adapted to rocky and sandy 

 soil, but under cultivation it has adapted itself to a variety of 

 soils and climates. Its commercial uses are practically the same 

 as for the blackberry. 



The Strawberry. The common garden strawberry is the off- 

 spring of a wild species of the plant, native along the Pacific 

 coast of America, and which was first cultivated in Chile nearly 

 two hundred years ago. It has been under cultivation in this 

 country for the past sixty years, and is one of our most important 

 industries. In many parts of the United States the strawberry 

 grows in a wild state, but it does not lend itself to much improve- 

 ment under cultivation, as does the South American variety. 

 The cultivated varieties of the common garden strawberry are 

 now grown from Florida to Alaska, and on account of its wide 

 range of growth we are able to have strawberries on the market 

 a large part of the year. The early crop in the spring is grown in 

 Florida, South Texas, and other Southern States, and this in turn 

 is followed by the crop grown in Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, 

 and other States near the same latitude. Later the market is 

 supplied from the crop grown in the Northern States, so that the 

 season for strawberries is made much longer than it otherwise 

 would be. 



The strawberry plants propagate by runners, which are set out 

 either in the spring or in the summer, in beds or rows, in rich sandy 

 soil. Through the winter the young plants should be protected 

 with a moderate covering of straw. Wood ashes and fertilizers of 



