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I'ourteen years is fourteen cents per quart, and the yield two thousand 

 1 wa hundred quarts per acre. 



The varieties to w'nch he gives the preference are Wilson's Early, 

 Dorchester, Kittatinny, and Xew liochelle. The Hoosac Thornless he 

 finds to have no other merit than its freedom from thorns ; and the 

 Crystal White, Col. Wilder, and Dr. Warder, with all white, red, and 

 jmrple blackberries, prove to be unprofitable. Sable Queen, Sinclair, 

 Holcomb, Cumberland, and many other varities have been tested and 

 found not to be as valuable as the four sorts above named. He has found 

 the Snyder to be remarkably hardy and very productive, qualities 

 which make it very valuable in many localities, because it can be 

 relied uj)on to produce a full crop, but the fruit is smaller. Clarkson's 

 Early promises to compete successfully with Wilson's Early, ripening 

 as soon, and very productive, with fruit of fair size. The Delaware is 

 a very large and excellent blackberry, ripening at the same time with 

 the Kittatinny, and the bush a very vigorous grower, and seemingly 

 perfectly hardy. 



The blackberry should not be planted on very rich soil, lest the 

 result prove to be a large growth of canes and very little fruit. After 

 experimenting with many soils, from a firm clay to a light blowing 

 sand, Mr. Parry gives the preference to a light moist sandy loam, and 

 if water would otherwise stand near the surface that which has been 

 thoroughly underdrained. He states that a fruit grower who had 

 forty acres devoted to the gTowing of blackberries bought a tract of 

 light sandy land at thirteen dollars per acre, and planted it with them; 

 but in order to have a model patch he purchased a few acres of the 

 best and richest land in the vicinity, at three hundred dollars per 

 acre, and planted it with the same kind of blackberries, gave it the 

 best of care, obtained an immense growth of canes; but never as much 

 fruit as from the cheaper land. 



He highly recommends the practice of heading back the canes, 

 during the summer, to a height of from three to five feet, which will 

 cause the side branches to grow vigorously, and interlocking with each 

 other, enable the bushes to support themselves without stakes or wires. 

 These side branches should be shortened during the following spring, 

 so as to give the bushes a pyramidal form. The result of tliis pruning 

 lias been a greater yield of fruit, and of better quality than when he 

 had allowed the bushes to go unpruned. The un pruned bushes would 



