DELAWARE—DEWBERRY 
mostly Delaware orchards were the relics 
of the tree agent age when the glib tongue 
and beautiful pictures of fruit sold trees 
well adapted for planting in the north but 
worthless for this soil and climate. Rem- 
nants of these orchards still exist in many 
localities With these were found a few 
varieties like Winter Grixon and some of 
the earlier sorts, good enough in them- 
selves at that date for local consumption, 
but none of them free enough of scabs, 
blights, rusts and worm-holes to have com- 
mercial value. Men who know, said that 
good, clean fruit had been grown here, 
but for some reason would not grow any 
more. No market existed for the stuff 
that was grown, for none were so poor as 
to do it reverence. When a little start 
had been made and more good fruit was 
raised than local markets could consume, 
it was uphill work to convince buyers for 
the large markets that Delaware could 
produce any apples suitable for their 
trade. 
Today Delaware ranks high in pro- 
duction per acre and per tree; and 
year by year advances in quality and 
quantity. 
S. H. Dersy, 
Address before 24th Annual Session of the 
Peninsula optleulrara Society, Dover, Del., 
January 10-12, 
Fruit Crop of Delaware 
The fruit crop in 1910 amounted to 
20,000,000 quarts of berries; 750,000 bush- 
els of apples; 500,000 bushels of peaches; 
631,000 bushels of pears; 279,000 carriers 
of cantaloupes; 873 carloads of water- 
melons. 
DEHYDRATION. See 
Fruits. 
Hvaporation of 
Dewberry 
The dewberry is one of the most 
luscious of the small fruits. It has a fine 
flavor, and is rapidly growing into popu- 
larity. It requires about the same care 
and treatment as the blackberry, but is 
a little more tender, and in the colder 
regions it would be necessary to protect 
the canes by a light covering of earth or 
straw, during the winter. Its habits of 
growth are somewhat different from those 
of the blackberry. The blackberry is an 
883 
upright grower while the dewberry is a 
trailing vine and is usually trained on 
trellises 
Card, in his “Bush Fruits,’”? doubts the 
value of the dewberry, and suggests that 
its place may be occupied with some im- 
proved varieties of blackberries. This 
may be true, on account of the dewberry 
being a poor shipper. It must be in the 
market not less than 386 hours after pick- 
ing; but for early ripening and flavor, we 
have no blackberry that is its equal. 
Soil and Loeation 
In its wild state, the dewberry is found 
growing on light sandy soils; but experi- 
ence has shown that any soil adapted to 
raspberries or blackberries will grow dew- 
berries successfully. 
GRANVILLE LOWTHER 
Dewberry Culture 
Propagation 
The dewberry may be propagated by 
layering the tips or from root cuttings. 
In fact the plants are so easily secured 
that one may generally get them from his 
neighbors’ plantation more easily than 
from a nurseryman. If plants are re- 
quired by the wholesale a good plan is to 
plow a furrow along the row, place the 
tips of the runners in this and turn a 
light furrow back upon them; the tips must 
be actually covered. This work should 
be done before the opening of the picking 
season in most altitudes, and the plants 
will be ready for next spring’s setting. 
Deep cultivation that will disturb or break 
large roots will cause many new plants to 
start. If an old bed is to be discarded, a 
good crop of plants may be secured by 
thoroughly plowing and working down 
the bed in the spring, allowing the young 
plants to spring up from the broken roots 
the following summer. Root-cuttings, 
from roots the size of a lead pencil, may 
be taken in the fall, stored in moist sand 
over winter and planted out in nursery 
rows the following spring. If these root- 
cuttings are well cared for during the 
winter and planted three inches deep in a 
good soil, kept well moistened, a fair per 
cent will produce plants. MRoot-cuttings 
taken in the spring and planted in the 
same way will also give fair results, The 
