J. T. LOVETT. INC., LITTLE SILVER, N. J.— BLACKBERRIES 19 



Blackberries 



Plants will be forwarded by mail provided cash is sent for postage as per table. 



SUCKER PLANTS TRANSPLANTED PLANTS ROOT-CUTTING PLANTS 



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

 porous soil. They require the same treatment as recommended for raspberries. In field culture, plant in 

 rows from five to seven feet apart (according to the vigor of the variety), and three feet distant in rows; 

 in garden culture, plant in rows five feet apart, and plant three feet distant in 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 pinching off the tops, thus causing them to throw off side branches; but when this has been 

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

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



Root cutting plants (those grown from pieces of the roots in nursery rows) are so far superior to the 

 ordinary or "sucker" plants, that those who have used them will not plant the last named at any price. 

 The accompanying cuts show the difference. Owing to the vigor and excellent root system of "root-cutting" 

 plants, they not only live when planted for fruiting, almost to a plant (the failures of suckers are usually 

 great), but the growth is so much stronger that a whole year is gained in getting the field into full bearing. 



I make a specialty of growing blackberry plants from root-cuttings and have at the present time a very 

 large stock of them. Transplanted plants are root-cutting plants transplanted closely and grown the second 

 year in nursery rows. They are large and strong with splendidly developed root system and are very popular 

 with amateur and professional gardeners. They yield a much larger crop of fruit the first year of bearing 

 than do ordinary sucker or root-cutting plants. 



Do not order less than a half dozen of a variety, as a test to amount to anything cannot be made with 

 a less number. 



THE JOY BLACKBERRY 



'*It's immensel" That is what several persons have said when seeing the Joy Blackberry in bearing 

 for the first time. It is an appropriate exclamation; for the berries of Joy are not only of very large size, 

 but this Blackberry is truly "immense" in every way — in enormous yield, in vigorous growth and heavy 

 leafage, in beauty of color and form, in quality. The season just past it was finer and better than ever 

 before. In fact it has proved to be so far superior to all other blackberries that I would not accept as a 

 gift plants of any other variety if I could obtain plants of the Joy at $25.00 a hundred — much less at the 

 prices at which they are now offered. 



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; (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 been injured by cold. 



It has endured a temperature of twenty-four degrees below zero unharmed. I believe it to be entirely 

 immune to "Orange Rust," "Double Blossom," and all other diseases of the blackberry. 



The past year, in order to test its resistance to Orange Rust, I had it growing in adjacent rows to a 

 blackberry, the canes of which were badly infested with this scourge, and not a trace of Orange Rust ap- 

 peared upon the Joy — an added joy to me. 



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 six 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 into the world from 

 the Monmouth Nursery. 



The above is what I said of this splendid blackberry in last year's catalog. I can only add it haa again 

 the year just passed surpassed, by far, all other Blackberries at Monmouth; came through the winter 

 perfectly, has not developed a defect and again fruited by the side of varieties that were badly infested with 

 the "orange rust" with clean spotless foliage and without a trace of the fungus upon it. 



