J. T. LOVETT, Little Silver, X. J. 



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BLACKBERRIES 



If to "be sent by mail add 50c per 100. Mailed postpaid at dozen rates. 



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

 most sandy, porous soils. They require the same treatment as recommended for raspberries. 

 In field culture plant 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 the 

 cane, and severe. The canes should be headed back in summer when three feet high by pinch- 

 ing off the tops, thus causing them to throw out side branches; but when this has been neglected 

 cut back in winter or early spring, the bearing canes one-third or more, according to the growth 

 the plants have made, and cut back the side branches to twelve or fifteen inches. 



BLOWERS BLACKBERRY 



In this it is hoped and believed we have the desideratum, namely, a very large, productive 

 and absolutely hardy Blackberry. Blowers is such a sturdy grower, the canes if unchecked, 

 attain a height of ten feet and are **as hardy as an Oak." It is unlike the Mersereau, which 

 although hardy, of fine size and quality, is often unproductive; the Blowers yielding very heav- 

 ily and for a long season. The fruit is handsome as well as large, and is of superb quality. 

 Mr. E. P. Powell, the well known horticulturist, declares: ''The best I have ever tasted," with 

 small seeds and very juicy. It has not yet been fruited at Monmouth, but I have received such 

 favorable reports of it from reliable, conservative horticulturists and fruit growers in "Western 

 New York, the home of its origin, and Northern Ohio, where it has been fully tested, that I 

 believe it to be a variety of great value. These men positively state it has endured success- 

 fully a temperature of twenty degrees below zero, that its berries are fully as large as those 

 of the unreliable Eathbun and it has yielded at the rate of two hundred and eighty bushels 

 per acre. It begins to ripen in midseason and continues for two months. Strong root cutting 

 plants. Doz., 50c; 100, $3.00; 1000, $20.00. 



