BLACKBERRIES 



If to be sent by mail, add 50c per 100 for postage; mailed at each and dozen rates if desired. 



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

 feet apart, (according to the growth of the variety plantedi. 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 taan ordinary 

 <>r sucker plants. 



The Joy Blackberry 



BRINGS JOY TO ALL WHO GROW, SELL OR EAT IT 



Unites superlative quality, iron-clad hardiness and great productiveness. 



See picture in natural colors, mailed herewith. 



A business berry is like a good business man and may be depended upon every time. 



Its history is as Interesting as fiction; how Mr. Jacob Miehl of Atlantic County, New Jersey, a Black- 

 berry 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 -ts hardiness and its pro- 

 ductiveness 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; sufBce it to say, the Joy Blackberry has always brought joy to everybody— joy 

 indeed to Mr. Miehl when its purchase by me, at a large sum, relieved him of pressing demands and joy 

 to the writer in securing such a prize at any price; constant joy nothing but joy during the years I have 

 been testing it. That is why I 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 and gardener in the home garden. No one who partakes of its delicious, health imparting 

 fruit 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 and all the branches on every cane are loaded with fruit; (I 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 hardihood, never to my knowledge having Ijeen injured by cold (in the winter of 1911-12 

 every 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; it ripens in midseason— with Ward, Blowers and Kittatinny. It has been given 

 a thorough test for four years and has not developed a defect and I believe it to be the Blackberry of the 

 future; destined to become as popular as the Gandy Strawberry or the Cuthbert and the SU. Regis Rasp- 

 berries—all of which were sent out into the world from the Monmouth Nursery in years agone. 



Root cutting plants, each 20c; dozen, ?2.C0; 100, $12.00. 



Transplanted plants, each 30c; dozen, $3.00: 100, $18.00. 



Thousand rates quoted by letter. 



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