J. T. LOVETT. LITTLE SILVER. N. J. 



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Blackberries 



// to be sent by nuiil add 50c per 100. Mailed 

 postpaid at dozen rates if desired. 

 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 rasp- 

 berries. In field culture, plant in rows from 

 five to seven feet apart (according to the 

 strength of the variety), and three feet dis- 

 tant 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 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 th« 

 growth the plants have made, and cut back the side branches twelve or 

 fifteen inches. 



Sucker Plants. 



Root-cutting Plants. 



Root cutting plants (those grown from pieces of the roorts 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 two accom- 

 panying 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. 



Root cutting blackberry plants are grown in very large quantities at the Monmouth Nursery. An opportunity 

 to give special figures on large lots is solicited. 



HIMALAYA GIANT BERRY. 



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), but the fruit is black and 

 resembles in appearance mammoth Blackberries. It is 

 said to have been discovered in the Himalaya Mountains, 

 6,000 feet above sea level, and to be of ironclad hardi- 

 hood. The introducers state the berries are of great 

 size and are produced in enormous clusters, 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, making a growth of twenty to thirty feet in a 

 year, and do not die back to the root after fruiting, as 

 do Raspberries and Blackberries, but fruits upon the 

 same wood from year to year, like the grape. They also 

 say it is such a marvelous fruit that "the truth is hard 

 to believe." 



I have much faith in this prodig>-, and if half that is 

 claimed for it is realized when fully tested, it is indeed 

 a berry of untold value. Large, strong plants, each, 30c; 

 3 for 60c; 6 for $1.00; 15 for $2.00; 25 for $3.00. (By 

 mail if preferred.) 



LA GRANGE. 



The introducer describes it thus: "This berry is a 

 Russian product, having been brought from that Arctic 

 country fourteen years ago, and has been fruited by Mr. 

 La Grange in Vermilion County, IIH nois, for the f)ast 

 twelve years, and in that time has not received any in- 

 jury from cold winters. It is the hardiest berry yet 

 introduced; it grows on canes like the Lawton or Snyder, 

 but differs from them as regards fruit stems. This plant 

 sends out its fruit stems from the ground up and each 

 fruit stem has ample foliage, each berry having a leaf. 

 The fruit ripens in the shade, which materially adds to 

 its flavor. Other varieties produce their fruit mostly at 

 the top of the canes, which are almost bare of foliage, 

 and consequently are often sun-scalded. When the ber- 

 ries from the first bloom are about two-thirds grown, 

 there comes on a second crop of bloom as profuse as the 



La Grange Blackberry. 



first; in ripening one cannot tell when the berries from 

 the first blooms end and where fruits from second 

 blooms begin. The first fruit ripens about July 10th and 

 remains in bearing from thirty to thirty-five days. It is 

 not an everbearer. It is very productive, one-ninth of an 

 acre yielding 571 quarts. Rev. J. R. Reasoner estimated 

 5,000 quarts per acre. It is free from any hard core, 

 and has but few seeds. The best and largest berry yet 

 produced, sixty-five berries filling a quart box full; a 

 single berry measuring four and a half inches in cir- 

 cumference. Prof. Forbes says it is freer from disease 

 than any Blackberry he has ever seen." 



Has not yet fruited at Monmouth, but the canes have 

 made a beautiful growth and proved to be absolutely 

 hardy. Root cutting plants, doz., $1.00; 100, $7.50. 



