CHAPTER V 



THE DEWBERRIES 



The dewberry as a cultivated fruit has been such 

 a recent introduction to American horticulture that 

 as yet it can scarcely be said to have a history. 



At the summer meeting of the Fruit -Growers 7 

 Society of Western New York, held June 24, 1863, 

 James Vick described the dewberries grown by Dr. 

 Miner, of Honeoye Falls, N. Y., and his method of 

 training them. This was the same as the present 

 method of tying the fruiting canes to stakes about 

 five feet high, and allowing the new growth to run 

 at will, most of which will root at the tips. He was 

 growing two varieties, one of which was some ten 

 days earlier than the other. Mention is made of the 

 fact that the berries of the earlier variety were some- 

 times imperfect, "a common fault with the dewberry." 

 The other variety appeared to bear uniformly perfect 

 berries.* From a later mention of these varietiest it 

 seems that they were sent out by Dr. Miner to some 

 extent, but there is no. evidence that they ever received 

 varietal names, and therefore they were probably 

 soon lost to cultivation. 



It appears that the Bartel was the first named va- 



*Hovey's Mag. of Hort. 1863, p. 319. 

 tlbid, 1868, p. 286. 



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