RESISTANCE TO CLIMATE 125 



HARDINESS 



Since the difference between a full crop, with good 

 profits, and no crop, with utter loss, may depend on 

 hardiness alone, it is a matter of no little importance. 

 In the climate of central New York varieties like 

 Brunton's Early, Topsy, and usually Wilson's Early 

 and Wilson Junior, are almost sure to kill to the 

 ground every winter, while Taylor, Agawam, Stone's 

 Hardy, Snyder, etc., are slightly or not at all injured. 



In many sections of the West and Northwest, as 

 Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, etc., none of the 

 varieties prove hardy without winter protection and, 

 curiously enough, the matter of selection for hardiness 

 becomes of less import there than in milder climates. 

 The ability to endure summer heat is there the im- 

 portant consideration. If plants are to remain un- 

 protected during the winter, the selection of varieties 

 should be largely influenced by the question of hardi- 

 ness. The method of protection is described in the 

 introductory chapter. 



YIELD 



The blackberries are undoubtedly the best yielders 

 among members of the bramble family. Not only do 

 they yield well when growing wild among the rocks and 

 woods, and even under worse conditions which may 

 sometimes pass under the name of cultivation, but they 

 respond promptly and generously to liberal care and 

 attention. In answer to a request for an estimate of 



