E. W. TIWNSEND (Strawberry Specialist) 23 
FIELD OF DEWBERRIES 
DEWBERRY. pay. But at our present prices you will find 
: e pee Et : them as cheap as the cheapest and far below 
We grow only ewes Fee Le Ae many. We begin to ship dewberry plants in 
(Mays) and the Lucretia. We have tried oth- November, and can make shipments any time 
ers, but they have all been failures and we in winter. It is usually the cheapest way to 
have settled on these two varieties until we have them go by freight if in lots of four to 
see something better. five thousand. 
The Austin ripens about one week earlier 
than Lucretia with us. But is not as good a 
shipper as the Lucretia, but for home mar- 
kets it is a fine variety and can be recom- 
mended; but for long distant shipments I 
can only recommend the Lucretia as the most 
profitable CG2wberry ever grown. 
For best results plants should be set in 
rows five feet one way and four feet the other 
and at the end of the first year’s growth tied 
to stakes about three and one-half feet above 
the ground; the tips cut back about one foot. 
This keeps the fruit clean and when given 
this pruning makes the berries of better uni- 
form size. They are also much easier picked 
when thus tied. We recommend light soil 
for dewberries and a Southern slope when 
possible. Our plants are all hand-tipped in 
the early fall. This insures extra strong DEWBERRY. 
roots. Owing to the labor troubles we are 
sompelled to ask our customers this season . . 5 
a trifie more for our dewberry plants than- Price List of Dewberries 
has been our custom. The tipping and also 2D 50 100 1,000 
digging of the dewberry plants isa very sticky Austin (Mays)..... .50 .75 $1.00 $6.00 
job and we were compelled to raise our for- Lucretia.......... 50 .75 1.00 6,00 
mer wages which we had been accustomed to 
