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a greenish color, grooved, bearing abundant prickles. Berries 

 medium to large, roundish, with medium to large grains, good in 

 flavor and quality.— Geneva (N. Y.) Exp. Sta. Bull. 81: 582. 



Western Triumph. — A chance seedling found upon the open 

 prairie, in Lake county, Illinois, in 1858, by Mr. Biddle, of 

 Muskegon, 111. Fruit medium to large, very abundant, roundish, 

 elongated, obtuse in form, granules coarse, large, apparently firm, 

 yet very rich and sweet, carrying well, and without any harshness 

 of core, like Lawton. Leaf broad and thick, irregularly and 

 coarsely serrate; spines abundant, stiff and strong. — Tilton's Jour, 

 of Hort. 4:44. (From F. R. Elliott, in The Rural New-Yorker.) 

 Lacking in hardiness, and inclined to overbear. 



Woodland. — Plants thrifty, productive, with abundant small 

 prickles. Fruit medium or above, roundish, with large to very 

 large grains; flavor and quality good. — Geneva (N. Y.) Exp. Sta. 

 Bull. 81: 582. 



III. The Leafy-cluster Blackberries 

 Buhus argutus 



This was the first type of blackberry to be brought 

 into general cultivation, since it is to this class that 

 the old Dorchester belongs. The type is characterized 

 chiefly by the fact that the leaves extend up the stem 

 into the cluster, there becoming small and narrow and 

 consisting of a single leaflet. The plant is usually 

 small and upright in habit of growth. The leaflets 

 are rather small and firm, narrow, and coarsely toothed, 

 often nearly smooth, and persisting late in the fall. 

 The fruit is early, roundish, of medium or small size, 

 with large grains. Although first in the race, this 

 type has not been able to maintain the advantage 

 thus secured. No variety of the class can be said to 

 occupy a prominent position in the blackberry fields 

 of to-day. 



