BbllCKBERRiE^ 



Culture. —Many MncTs of blackberries vril] succeed, not only in good frnit land, but even In the most 

 gandy, porous soil. They require the same treatment as lecommended for raspberries, but in field culture 

 should be planted in rows five to seven feet apart (according to the strength of the variety), and three feet 

 distant in the rows ; in garden culture plant rows five feet apart and plants three feet distant in the rows. 

 The prunning should be governed by lue growth of cane and should be severe. Pinch back the canes in 



summer when three feet high, causing them to throw out 

 laterals. "While we exercise every care in digging and as- 

 sorting ordinary plants, known as "Suckers." putting in 

 none vathout side roots, yet I desire to Impress upon the 

 minds of planters the supe- 

 rior value of plants grown 

 from pieces of roots termed 

 Root Cutting Plants," which 

 ha\-ing to depend on their 

 own roots for support, make 

 much better and more nu- 

 merous lateral and fibrous 

 ones. To illustrate the dif- \</p^/-'[^ 

 ference I present figures of o/^iJ^^'/A^J^'^Y^'x^ 

 both (371 and 377), showing a ^^i^^g^/ vi^^ 

 good plant of each ( AA), and 

 also an ordinary one (BB). 

 Root Cuttixg Plants. Fig. 371. Root cutting plants are so Suckees. Fig. 377. 

 vastly superior, difference in cost so slight, that fruit growers who have once planted them will not use 

 suckers at any price when others can be had. 



NEW VARIETIES, 



Early King. Fig 



MINNEWASKI.— Upon the grounds of the 

 ~~ originator, Ulster Co., 



X. Y., it has exhibited 

 many excellent traits 

 which, if continued in 

 other sections and un- 

 der general culture,will 

 make the variety very 

 valuable. It is claim- 

 ed to be of superior 

 merit by reason of its 

 "great hardiness, large 

 size and enormous pro- 

 ductiveness." Speak- 

 ing of its season of 

 ripening the originator says : " The Minnewaski on a 

 north slope unprotected, and the Early Wilson, on a 

 south slope, protected, ripened at the same time, and 

 before any others of twenty-five varieties growing on 

 our place." Root Cutting Plants: Doz.' §2.50 ; icX), 

 $15.00. 



EARL.Y KING.— An extra early variety fronTV XEVADA.— From the Sierra Nevada Mountains, 



Missouri, of great hardiness and superior quality. It 

 ripens even earlier than Early Harvest, larger and of 

 delicious sweetness, which makes it of particular 

 value for the home grower. The canes are strong 

 growers, free from disease, productive and hardy, 

 havincf safely endured a temperature of 3H degrees 

 below'zero at its home. I have fruited it at Monmouth 

 and find it o( great value.— Boot Cutting Pkints: 

 Doz., 32.50; 100, $15.00. 



and has been grown for several years in Kansas, 

 whose severe winters it has passed through uninjured 

 without protection. A splendid grower, and produc- 

 tive. I have fruited it at Monmouth and find the de- 

 scription to be correct. Fruit of good size and excel- 

 lent quality. Mid-season. Rnot Cutting Plants: Doz., 

 $1.50; 100, $7..50. 



