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EWING'S WONDER BLACKBERRY 



Having received from trustworthy par- 

 ties most glowing reports of this unique 

 blackberry, I am departing from my usual 

 custom by offering it before having fruited 

 it. In describing it I can therefore give 

 only what has been given me, viz.: 

 "To Whom It May Concern: 



"The Ewing's Wonder Blackberry is all 

 its name implies and exceeds in produc- 

 tiveness the most sanguine expectations. 

 When the promoter first told us of its 

 growth and yield, we were decidedly scepti- 

 cal and thought he was romancing. A 

 visit to the farm and to the blackberry 

 field and inquiries made among the neigh- 

 bors dissipated all doubts. 



"The berry is of medium size, compact 

 in structure and of the finest flavor. The 

 plants are trained upon arbors, which they 

 outgrow rapidly unless their growth has 

 been anticipated by the erection of capacious 



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less than fifteen feet apart, where the patch is a small one; but when there is an extensive field for them, they 

 should be from twenty to twenty-five feet apart; for they will need the room. 



"Thirty-eight quarts have been picked from a two year old plant and greater yields have been reported. Run- 

 ners from the parent stem usually grow not less than twenty-eight feet, and there are to be several of them. Forty 

 feet runners in a single year are not unusual and can be found plentifully on the Ewing farm. 



"Farmers who give attention to berry raising cannot afford to be without this plant. 



T. D. Sensor, Dean of the Cape May Summer School of Agriculture. 



Franklin Dye, Secretary State Board of Agriculture. 



Robert E. Hand, State Senator, 



Aaron W. Hand, Editor "Star and Wave." 



Strong plants, each 75c; dozen, $7.50. 



LA GRANGE 



The introducer describes it thus: "This berry is a 

 Russian product, having been brought from that Arctic 



country fourteen years ago, and has been fruited by Mr. 

 La Grange in Vermilion County, Illinois, for the past 



twelve years, and in that time has not received any in- 

 jury from cold winters. It is the hardiest berry yet 

 introduced; it grows on canes like the Lawton or Snyder, 

 but differs from them as regards fruit stems. This plant 

 sends out its fruit stems from the ground up and each 

 fruit stem has ample foliage, each berry having a leaf. 

 The fruit ripens in the shade, which materially adds to 

 its flavor. Other varieties produce their truit mostly at 

 the top of the canes, which are almost bare of foliage, 

 and consequently are often sun-scalded. When the ber- 

 ries from the first bloom are about two-thirds grown, 

 there comes on a second crop of bloom as profuse as the 

 first; in ripening one cannot tell when the berries from 

 the first blooms end and where fruits from second 

 blooms begin. The first fruit ripens about July 10th and 

 remains in bearing from thirty to thirty-five days. It is 

 not an everbearer. It is very productive, one-ninth of an 

 acre yielding 571 quarts. Rev. J. R. Reasoner estimated 

 5,000 quarts per acre. It is free from any hard c«re, 

 and has but few seeds. The best and largest berry yet 

 produced, sixty-five berries filling a quart box full; a 

 single berry measuring four and a half inches in cir- 

 cumference. Prof. Forbes says it is freer from disease 

 than any Blackberry he has ever seen." 



Has not yet fruited at Monmouth, but the canes have 

 made a beautiful growth and proved to be absolutely 

 hardy. Root cutting plants, doz., 75c; 100, $4.00; 1000, 

 $30.00. 



