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/. r. LOVETT, LITTLE SILVER, N. /. 



BLACKBERRIES. 



Root-Ciiiting Plants. 



Sucker Plants. 



Mailed postpaid at dozen rates. If to be sent by mail, add 50c. per 100. At 1000 rates, by express or freight only. 



Many kinds of blackberries will succeed, not only on good fruit land, but even on the most 

 sandy, porous soils. They require the same treatment as recommended for raspberries, but in field 



culture should be planted in rows from five to eight feet apart 

 (according to the strength of the variety), and three feet distant 

 in the rows; in garden culture plant in rows five feet apart, 

 and plant three feet distant in the rows. The pruning should 

 be governed by the gro^^h of cane, and should be severe. Pinch 

 back the canes in summer when three 

 feet high, which will cause them to throw 

 out laterals. 



I desire to impress upon the minds of 

 planters the superior value of plants 

 grown from pieces of roots and known as 

 " Eoot-cutting Plants," which, having to 

 depend upon their own roots for support, 

 make much better and more numerous 

 lateral and fibrous ones. To illustrate 

 the difference I present figures of both 

 grades. Koot-cutting plants are so vastly 

 superior and the difference in cost is so 

 slight that fruit-growers who have once 

 planted them will not use suckers at any 

 price, when the others are to be had. Please bear in mind that all the Blackberry plants here offered 

 have been grown from Root Cuttings, and are unsurpassed in quality. 



HERSEREAL BLACKBERRY. 



{Shown on last page of cover.) 

 The Greatest Acquisition in Small Trults 

 of the A<{e. 



The following two letters, each from an 

 authority on Blackberries, tell the story of 

 the Mersereau in a brief and lucid way : 



FROM THE CAST. 



After fruiting the Mersereau Blackberry 

 again this season I am still louder in its 

 praise than before. I will say right here 

 that I have been among blackberries for the 

 past thirty years and have seen and tested 

 all kinds that have been sent out in that 

 time, but nothing has come up to the Mer- 

 sereau. It is the best flavored, finest 

 shaped, largest sized, most prolific, finest 

 looking, and perfectly hardy. Too much 

 cannot be said in its praise ; it is the black- 

 berry to plant. My canes were the admira- 

 tion of all who saw them. — Wm. T. Woer- 

 NEE, Middlesex Co., N. J. 



FROM THE >VEST. 



We have no doubt that this Blackberry 

 will have as great a sale if not greater than 

 the Snyder, once it is introduced in this 

 section. When Snyder was first introduced 

 we sold many thousands of them at $25.00 

 to $.30.00 per thousand. The Mersereau has 

 proved just as hardy, and the fruit is larger 

 and better and the caves are more prolific than 

 the Snyder. There is no reason why this 

 variety should not prove a winner in the 

 West. — W. E. EossNEY, Pres. Phcenix Nurs- 

 ery Company, McLean Co., Ills. 



For twenty years I was in search of a 

 blackberry with an ironclad cane, and pro- 

 ducing large berries in abundance ; one 

 uniting the hardiness of cane of the Snyder 

 and the large size of fruit and productive- 



