J. T. LOVETT, LITTLE SILVER, NEW JERSEY 



BLACKBERRIES 



Plants will be sent by mail if desired, provided cash is sent for postage as per table on page 19. 



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

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

 culture, plant 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. 



This is one of the good things that appear 

 in the horticultural world at rare intervals; 

 such as the Bartlett Pear, Baldwin Apple. 

 Caco Grape, etc. It was still finer the sum- 

 mer just past than ever before, and I fe-il 

 quite unequal to the task of describing it in 

 a way that its great merits entitle it to be 

 described — in simple truth, to do it justice. 

 Perhaps I can do nothing better than re- 

 print the description that appeared in the 

 last edition of my catalog, which is as fol- 

 lows: 



A business berry and like a good business 

 man, may be depended upon every time. 



Its history is as interesting as fiction; 

 how ilr. Jacob Miehl, of Atlantic County, 

 New Jersey, a blackberry grower for over 

 fifty years, found it growing in a secluded 

 spot; how he planted it in his garden and 

 for many years watched it develop as a 

 father watches his child; how he tested its 

 hardiness and its productiveness in every 

 way he could think of, and so on to the 

 end of the chapter, but space will not permit 

 me to give it here. Suffice it to say, the 

 Joy Blackberr\' has always brought joy to 

 everybody who has had anything to do with 

 it — joy indeed to Mr. Miehl when its pur- 

 chase by me, at a large sum, relieved him 

 of pressing demands and joy to the writer 

 in securing such a prize at any price; con- 

 stant joy and nothing but joy during the 

 years I have been testing it. That is why 

 T have named it Joy, and I firmly believe 

 it will continue to bring joy to everybody 

 who has anything to do with it; to the 

 market grower in large crops and large 

 returns; to the commission merchant who 

 sells the fruit, to the shop keeper who retails 

 it, and last but not least, to the amateur 

 gardener in the home garden. No one who 



partakes of its delicious, health impartingfruit can fail to enjoy it. 



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; CI 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 (in the winter of 1911-12 everj* blackberry in 

 my trial grounds was damaged more or less except the Joy, which came through with every bud and 

 terminal in perfect condition). Its canes have never been affected, even a little bit, by orange rust 

 or other fungus disease, and I believe it is immune to them. 



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 five 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 in the world from the Monmouth Nursery in years agone. 



Root cutting plants, each, 15c.; dozen, $1.50; 100, $10.00; 1,000, $75.00. 



Transplanted plants, each, 25c.; dozen, $2.50; 100, $15.00; 1.000, $125.00. 



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A PLANT OF JOY BLACKBERRY FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. 



