Like the good friend and true, this improves in 

 one's estimation the better it becomes kno^vn. 

 In it we have the long sought 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 to twelve feet 

 on fertile soil) and is "as hardy as an oak." Un- 

 like the Mersereau (which, although hardy, of 

 fine size and quality, is often unproductively ) , the 

 Blowers yields A'ery heavily and for a long sea- 

 son. 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 tested," with small seeds and very juicy. Its 

 canes have endured a temperature of twenty de- 

 grees below zero unharmed and it has yielded at 

 the rate of 280 bushels per acre. 



I have now had this variety in bearing for sev- 

 eral years and think better of it all the time : in 

 fact. I regard it as the very best fully tested 

 variety. Canes of even stronger growth than the 

 famous Ward, equally prolific, and the berries are 

 still larger and finer in quality. It begins to 

 ripen in midseason and continues for a long time. 

 Root cutting plants, dozen. 40c.: 100. ?2.00: 1.000. 

 $15.00. 



. HIMALAYA GIANT 



It is quite puzzling to know where to class this, 

 as it is neither a true Blackberry nor Raspberry. 

 The canes are somewhat like some Raspberries 

 (rooting at the tips after the manner of black- 

 caps i, but the fruit is black and resembles in ap- 

 pearances large Blackberries. It is said to have 

 been discovered in the Himalaya ^Mountains. 6.000 

 feet above the sea level, and to be of ironclad 

 hardihood. The introducers state the berries are 

 of great size and are produced in enormous clus- 

 ters all summer, rendering it the most productive 

 of all known berries: that they are rich and sweet 

 in flavor, with no core and literally melt in the 

 mouth. The canes are extremely vigorous and 

 hardy, making a growth of twenty to thirty feet 

 in a year. They do not die back to the root after 

 fruiting, as do raspberries and blackberries, but 



fruit upon the same wood from year to year like 

 the gi'ape. They also say it is such a marvelous 

 fruit that "the truth is hard to believe." 



The above is the description of this berry as it 

 appeared in my catalog of 1912. It has now been 

 pretty fully tested at ]\Ionmouth and candor com- 

 pels me to state it is a disappointment to me. 

 Truly a giant in growth, but the yield was not 

 a heaA-y one and the berries were quite small. 

 The quality of the fruit, however, is sweet, rich 

 and excellent, rendering it well worth having, 

 especially in the home garden. 



Strong 6 months' plants, each. 10c. : dozen. 75c.; 

 100, $4.00; 1,000, $30.00; 18 months' transplanted 

 plants, each, 15c.; dozen, $1.50; 100, $6.00; 1.000, 

 $50.00. 



wiCENOYER 



A very early and entirely hardy Blackberry of 

 good size and excellent quality; hence a variety 

 of great value. At Monmouth it is ripe by July 

 4th, In the past. Early Harvest has been the va- 

 riety we have planted for early fruit : Kenoyer 

 gives berries nearly double the size of it. ripens 

 a few .days earlier and the canes are absolutely 

 hardy (those of Early Harvest are not with us). 

 The canes are of stocky habit and yield such quan- 

 tities of berries they are. as one grower puts it, 

 '•black with fruit" at picking time. It ripens its 

 entire crop in a short period : a decided advantage 

 to market growers, as it gives very heavy pick- 

 ings and is out of the way when Blowers. "S^ard 

 and other midseason varieties come on. I have 

 fruited it a number of years, testing it fully and 

 find it so superior to Early Harvest. Rathbun, 

 Wilson's Early. Wilson. Jr.. Early King, etc., that 

 I have discarded them all and grow Kenoyer ex- 

 clusivelv for earlv Blackberries. Root cutting 

 plants, dozen. 35c.': 100. $1.50: 1.000. $12.00. 



