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varieties, and are to be preferred in sections where the borers are not 
troublesome. Victoria is a valuable market sort where borers are 
numerous, as it is little injured by them. The same is also true of 
(Prince) Albert, which is little attacked by currant worms and is 
particularly valuable as a late sort. White Dutch and White Grape 
are valuable light-colored varieties, and (Black) Naples as a variety 
for jelly. London (London Market) is also proving to be satisfactory 
in some sections. 
Dewberry. — The dewberry may be called an early trailing black- 
berry. The culture is very simple. Support 
should be given to the canes, as they are very 
slender and rank growers. A wire trellis or large- 
meshed fence-wire answers admirably; or (and this 
is the better general method) they may be tied to 
stakes. The fruits are large and showy, which, 
combined with their earliness, makes them desir- 
able; but they are usually deficient in flavor. The 
Lucretia (Fig. 276) is the leading variety. 
Lay the canes on the ground in winter. In the 
spring tie all the canes from each plant to a stake. 
After fruiting, cut the old canes and burn them (as 
for blackberries). In the meantime, the young 
canes (for next year’s fruiting) are growing. These 
may be tied up as they grow, to be out of the way 
276. sence dew. Of the cultivator. Dewberries are one to two 
berry. weeks earlier than blackberries. 
Fig. — The fig is little grown in the East except as a curiosity, but 
on the Pacific coast it has gained considerable prominence as an orchard 
fruit. Figs will stand considerable frost, and seedling or inferior 
varieties grow out-of-doors without protection as far north as Virginia. 
Many of the varieties fruit on young sprouts, and, inasmuch as the 
roots will stand considerable cold, these varieties will often give a few 
figs in the northern states. Figs have been fruited in the open ground 
in Michigan. In regions having ten degrees of frost, the fig should be 
laid down in winter. For this purpose the plants are pruned to branch 
from the ground, and the soft tops are bent to the surface and covered 
