J. T. LOVETT, LITTLE SILVER, NEW JERSEY 



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Blackberries 



Plants will be sent by mail if desired, provided cash is sent for postage as per table. 



Autumn is the best 'season of all the year for planting Blackberries. Plant m rows five to seven 

 feet apart (according to the growth of the variety planted ), and three feet apart in the row. In garden 

 culture, olant in rows five feet apart and the plants three feet apart in the row. 



The' plants I offer were grown from root cuttings in nursery rows and are far better than ordinary 

 or sucker plants. 



THE JOY BLACKBERRY 

 BRINGS JOY TO ALL WHO GROW, SELL, OR EAT IT 

 Unites superlative quality, ironclad hardiness and great productiveness 



JOY BLACKBERRY; from a photograph 



"It's immense! " That is what several persons have said when seeing the Joy Blackberry in bearing 

 for the first time. It is an appropriate exclamation; for the berries of Joy are not only of very large 

 size but this blackberry is truly "immense" in every way — in enormous yield, in vigorous growth and 

 heavy leafage, in beauty of color and form, in quality. The season just past it was finer and better 

 than"ever before. In fact it has proved to be so far superior to all other blackberries that I would not 

 accept as a gift plants of any other variety if I could obtain plants of the joy at $25.00 a hundred — much 

 less at the prices at which they are now offered. 



It may be briefly described as follows: The canes are of stocky, vigorous habit — so stout and strong 

 it needs no staking — with abundant large five fingered leafage; yields very heavily every year and all 

 the canes are loaded with fruit; (I have never known any variety, either Blackberry or Raspberry, with 

 such an inherent propensity to bear fruit as the Joy Blackberry;. The canes are of ironclad hardi- 

 hood, never to my knowledge having been injured by cold. 



It has endured a temperature of twenty-four degrees below zero unharmed. I believe it to be 

 entirely immune to "Orange Rust," "Double Blossom," and all other diseases of the blackberry. 



The past year, in order to test its resistance to Orange Rust, I had it growing in adjacent rows re a 

 blackberry, the canes of which were badly infected with this scourge, and not a trace of Orange Rust 

 appeared upon the Joy — an added joy to me. 



The berries are large and almost as thick through as they are long — a characteristic of the variety 

 — and are coal black. In rich, luscious flavor it surpasses by far all other Blackberries I have ever 

 grown. It is not an early variety — ripening in midseason — with Ward, Blowers, and Kittatinny. It 

 has been given a thorough test for six years and has not developed a defect, and I believe it to be the 

 Blackberry of the future; destined to become as popular among Blackberries as the Gandy has been 

 among Strawberries or the Cuthbert and the St. Regis are among Raspberries — all of which were sent 

 out into the world from the Monmouth Nursery in years agone. 



Root cutting plants, dozen, SI. 00; 100, $ 6.00; 1000, $50.00. 



Transplanted plants, dozen, $1.50; 100, $10.00; 1000, $75.00. 



MACATAWA BLACKBERRY 



Claimed to be a hybrid of the Himalaya Berry 

 and the Eldorado Blackberry, and to possess the 

 characteristics of both its parents. Berries large, 

 sweet, coreless and almost seedless. Canes of 

 great hardihood, tremendous yielders and to be 

 truly everbearing, i.e., yielding continuously from 

 the middle of July until freezing weather. It has 

 not as yet fruited at Monmouth, and I can only 

 hope its claims may be verified bv test. Root 

 cutting plants, doz., $1.00; 100, $5.00. 



TEXAS EVERGREEN BLACKBERRY 



Said to have been brought from South Africa 

 by a Mr. Texas. Described as having canes of 

 upright habit, similar to the old Lawton or the 

 Eldorado, and to be everbearing in habit; berries 

 jet black and as large as English Walnuts, sweet 

 and juicy and without core. Root cutting plants, 

 each, 15c; doz., $1.50; 100, $10.00. 



