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



BLOWERS. 



Like the good friend and true, this improves in one's 

 estimation, the better it becomes known. After another 

 year with it, I have nothing but words of commendation 

 for it. 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 un- 

 checked, attain a height of ten to twelve feet, and arc 

 "as hardy as an oak." Unlike the Mersereau (which, 

 although hardy, of fine size and quality, is often unpro- 

 ductive) ; the Blowers yields very heavily and for a long 

 season. The fruit is handsome as well as large, and is 

 of superb quality. Mr. 1^. 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 degrees below zero unharmed 

 and it has yielded at the rate of 280 bushels per acre. 



I have now had this variety in bearing for three 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, doz., 40c; 100, $2.00; 1000, 

 $15.00. 



KENOYER. 



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 variety we have 

 planted for early fruit; Kenoyer gives berries nearly 

 or quite double the size of it and 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 quantities of berries they 

 are, as one grower puts it, "black with fruit;" at pick- 

 ing time. It ripens its entire crop in a short period; 

 a decided advantage to market growers as it gives very 

 heavy pickings aiid is out of the way when Blowers, 

 Ward 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 dis- 

 carded them all and grow Kenoyer exclusively for early 

 Blackberries. Root cutting plants, doz., 3Sc; 100, $1.50; 

 1000, $12.00. 



WARD. 



All admirers of the once popular Kittatinny will be 

 especially delighted with this. It is a strong, vigorous 

 grower, hardy, and bears annually enormous crops of 

 large, handsome berries of the finest quality, which al- 

 ways command the highest price in market. Ward orig- 

 inated in Monmouth County, New Jersey, has been 

 fully tested in field culture, and highly recommended by 



the New Jersey State Horticultural Society. 



Mr. J. H. Hale, ex-president of the American Pomo- 

 logical Society, says: "Of large size, jet black color, 

 firm for shipment, j'et tender and melting all through, 

 without core and of highest quality. I thought I had 

 seen blackberries before, but Ward caps the climax." 



This and Blowers are two superb Blackberries; in 

 brief they are beyond doubt by far the best varieties of 

 this very valuable fruit for general planting to date. 



Root cutting plants, doz., 35c; 100, $1.50; 1,000, $10.00. 



Sucker plants, doz., 30c; 100, $1.25; 1,000, $8.00. 



Seneca Co., Ohio, June 16, 1910. 

 I thought I was paying a big price when I sent you 

 $1.25 for one-half dozen St. Regis, but you sent eight, 

 and they are all living and thrifty and have berries on. 



F. H. WiNIKER. 



