/. T. LOJ'ETT, LITTLE SILVER, N. J. 9 



BLACKBERRIES. 



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 seven 



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 growth of 

 cane, 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 intending 

 planters the superior value of plants grown from 

 pieces of roots and known as "Root-Cutting 

 Plants." These possess strong, fibrous roots, and 

 the ordinary sucker plants are not fit to be com- 

 pared with them for a moment. The annexed 

 illustrations show the difference in the two grades 

 of plants. 



Please bear in mind that all the Blackberry plants 

 here offered are grown from root- cuttings, and are 

 unsurpassed in quality. 



Note. — / wish to call attention to my splendid 

 stock of Blackberry Plants this season, and the 

 ■very low prices at which I am offering them — all 

 If to be sent by mail, add joc. per 100. At 1000 rates, by express or freight 



Root-Cutting Plants. 



first-class plants and strictly true to name, 

 only. Mailed postpaid at dozen rates. 



Sucker Plants. 



MERSEREAU BLACKBERRY. 



Bv far the best Blackberry as yet produced ; having a cane of iron-clad hardiness and possessing every desirable prop- 

 erty known to blackberries to as great a degree as any variety in cultivation. In brief, in this one variety we have all the 



good points of every blackberry in cultivation and 

 lusciousness equalled by none. From almost every 

 State in the Union come reports commending it in the 

 highest terms, and I regret the limits of this price 

 list do not permit me to print them. A special circu- 

 lar giving the opinions of fruit growers throughout the 

 country, with description and history in full, of this 

 marvelous fruit will be mailed to all who wish it upon 

 receipt of request. 



The Mersereau Blackberry is not only hardier in 

 cane than the iron-clad Snyder and the berries larger 

 than those of the Wilson, but it is more productive by 

 far and better in quality than either. Its cardinal 

 properties are great size, great hardiness of cane and 

 great productiveness. But these arc not its only mer- 

 its. Its size and form are best shown by the annexed 

 engraving of a cluster made from a photograph. In 

 hardiness it is doubtless without an equal among 

 blackberries, having endured a temperature cf twenty 

 degrees below zero and was not injured in the least, 

 even at the tips, though Sm-der and Taj-lor's Prolific 

 were very much damaged. Just how low a tempera- 

 ture it will withstand uninjured is not known. In 

 quality it is exception ally sweet, rich, melting and 

 luscious; being without core — the seedy character of 

 Snyder and most other iron-clad sorts being especially 

 absent. The canes are of exceedingly strong, upright 

 habit, attaining upon fairly gocd soil, a height of 

 eight feet, if permitted to grow unchecked and are so 

 stout as to remain erect without staking; foliage 

 large, abundant and entirely free from rust or blight. 

 Its yield is simply enormous, affording heavy pickings 

 from the first until the crop is all matured. Its sea- 

 son is earh* to midseason : ripening with the Snyder— 

 in advance of Kittatinny. Lawton, Taylor's Prolific 

 or Erie, but not so early as Early Harvest or the 

 Wilson. 



$1,000.00 per acre per annum is the record of the 

 Mersereau; for it has yielded twelve thousand quarts 

 of berries per acre, which sold at an average of ten 

 cents per quart. Allowing two hundred dollars f< r 

 picking and marketing the returns were a thousand 

 dollars an acre. 



The coming summer I -.••ill have three fields of .Verser. 

 eau in bearing— two at Deal and one at Little Silver, 

 and I hofie all who can do so will make it m poi>.: t,> 

 come and see them in fruit. 



50c; 1 OO, $3.00; 1 OOO. $25. OO. 



Fine, Strong, root-cutting plants. Doz. 



