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fruit. In color it is a bright red, and the plant is beautiful and really an 

 ornamental bush, that could be grown in the lawn, where it would pro- 

 duce delightful hne flavored fruit, besides giving a pleasing effect in 

 beautifying the home grounds. The bushes are very productive, the fruil 

 ripening after the late red Raspberries. Commands a higher price in the 

 market than most Red Raspberries; in fact we have made several tests 

 ?rV'^ P several markets with results that surpassed our expectations. 

 This is one of the finest breakfast fruits we have ever eaten, just acid 

 enough to be sprightly and of high quality; valuable for all purposes. 



BLACKBERRIES, 



The writer has cultivated this fruit in a large way for several years, 

 harvesting many thousand quarts during the fruiting season. They have 

 always sold to good advantage, the price ranging from ten to fifteen cents 

 per quart for the different seasons' crop, thus making it, as all fruit grow- 

 ers know, one of the most profitable fruit crops to grow. The Blackberry 

 is one of our most reliable paying crops, and should be cultivated by all 

 who grow fruit for a living, while no well-provided amateur fruit garden 

 should be without this luscious, healthy berry. 



Any good ordinary farm land that will produce a crop of grain or 

 vegetables is admirably suited to the profitable cultivation of the Black- 

 berry. It succeeds well in partial shade and can be grown successfully 

 between the rows of young fruit trees. Prepare the ground the same as 

 you would for Raspberries or Strawberries, using the same kind of ma- 

 nures and in the same quantities per acre as advised for Strawberries. 

 It has been the practice quite generally with those who grow Blackberries 

 in the home garden to plant them along the fence line. We do not recom- 

 mend this way, as the plants are almost sure to be neglected and over- 

 grown with wood; the bed soon becomes unmanageable and worthless. 

 The better plan is to set your plants in a row in the garden where they 

 will oblige you to keep them under control by pruning and removing of 

 old and superfluous wood, and it must be remembered that this is not a 

 very difficult or expensive work when attended to at the proper time. 

 Blackberries can be grown successfully under the three systems previous- 

 ly mentioned for Raspberries, except that as they are more vigorous 

 growers they snould be planted a greater distance apart. They could 

 not be laid down and covered with soil for Winter protection like 

 the Raspberries sometimes are, the canes being too strong and stiff 

 for this purpose; however, it is quite unnecessary to resort to this means 

 with Blackberries as they are practically a hardy plant in all parts of the 

 country. Rarely indeed do we hear of the plants being Winter harmed; 

 when they are injured, it is on account of exceptionally unfavorable 

 Winter weather, or perhaps a weakened condition of plants caused by 

 injudicious late cultivation in the Autumn months, which produces an ex- 

 cessive wood growth that is insufficiently matured before cold weather ar- 

 rives and destroys it as well as the entire plant for fruiting the coming 

 season, it being necessarily of low vitality. Low growing vegetables can 

 be planted to good advantage between the rows the first season they are 

 cultivated; after that the Blackberries will need all the room and should 

 produce a good crop of fruit the first year after being planted. After the 



