CHAPTER VI 



THE NEW BERRIES 



THE new hybrid berry fruits promise to take a high 

 place in the estimation of growers, indeed, they now 

 excite more interest than improved varieties of the old 

 species, with the possible exception of Strawberries. 



This is largely due to the great success of the Logan- 

 berry, to the real merits of which fruit-growers have 

 only fully awakened during the past few years. 



The Loganberry is by no means a new fruit. It has 

 been offered at a low cost by nurserymen for many years, 

 but it has hitherto excited only languid interest, because 

 fruit-growers have failed to gauge its full worth. Judging 

 it by one standard alone, that of flavour, they have found 

 it defective, and have thought little more of it, turning 

 their attention to the improved varieties of Raspberry. 



Since it has been found that the Loganberry is a very 

 strong and healthy grower in nearly all soils, crops heavily, 

 and is excellent for bottling and canning, its culture has 

 increased a hundredfold. 



The greatest advantage which the Loganberry has over 

 the Raspberry is that it will establish itself in a few weeks 

 on shallow, dry soil, even in a hot season. A number of 

 plants were put into poor thin soil over chalk towards the 

 end of the winter of 1910-11, and in spite of the very hot 

 and dry summer the weakest plant made growth equal to 

 thirty feet of stem, while the strongest made an aggregate 



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