LUCBETLk AND BARTEL 



original plants — about one-ninth of Lt — was exhibited 

 at the Association of American Nurserymen at Wash- 

 ington, in June, 1886. This specimen bore 978 ber- 

 ries. B. V. Teas, now of [rvington, hid., appears to 

 have been the first to figure the Lucretia and to 

 offer plants for sale. 



Tin- Lucretia, like all dewberries, has made its 

 way into popular favor Blowly. People have not yet 



learned how to grow these fruits easily and suc< 



fully. Many persons laboriously tie them ap on wire 

 screens (Pig. 72) or trellises, l>nt the besl results — 

 considering the outlay — are obtained when the canes 

 aiv tied to stakes. In this fashion, they are man- 

 aged more easily than blackberries, and th<- earliness 

 of the fruit — ripening a week or two in advance of 

 the blackberries — makes the plant a useful one to the 

 enterprising grower of .-null fruits. 



Another prominent dewberry is the Bartel; and 

 it enjoys the distinction of being the first dewberry, 

 bj far as 1 know, to receive a nana-. It w.-is broughl 

 to Qotice some time early in the seventies bj Dr. 

 Bartel of Buey, Clinton county, southern Illinois. 

 The story goes that the plants appeared in an old 

 corn-field upon his farm, and some of the berries 

 irere so large that he conceived the idea of Belling 

 plants. II'- procured a lithograph of the berries, — 

 uhi'-h did ample justice to tin- fruit, — described the 

 methods of growing them, and for a time disposed of 

 considerable stock. The introducer was an old man ;it 

 this time, and was our of those clever and picturesque 

 individuals who often lend an interest to a oeighbor- 



h 1. The first printed record of this berrj appeared 



in December, 1875, in Purdy's "Fruit R rder" 



