W. F. ALLEN'S FALL PRICE LIST. 



to a stake three and ohe-half feet hfgtf. The photograph was taken after the 

 siixth picking aud I nmld have found hundreds of hills equally as good. 

 Our plan of cultivation is to plant in rows each way two and one-half feet 

 one way by five feet the other making about 3,500 plants per acre, cultivate 

 both ways till plants get long and troublesome and then cultivate only the 

 wide way and turn vines to keep the cultivator from tearing them off, or 

 better yet use sweeps on your cultivators such as offered in my spring cata- 

 logue, these will run under the vines and weed up the grass without disturb- 

 ing them. Leave vines lay on the ground till all danger of winter killing 

 is over, and then early in spring before buds put out, stakes should be driven 

 between each alternate hill the two and one-half foot way. The stakes should 

 be two and ona half or three feet above the ground and one hill from each 

 way tied to the top of the stake (see illustration). Or where timber for 

 states is scarce they can be used at longer intervals by using wire to lay the 

 vines over, same as grapes. I use binder twine tor tying to stakes. When 

 grown as above directed the plot or field in bloom is prettier than you 

 can imagine and when fruit comes it is the wonder, admiration and delight of 

 all who see it. 



LUCRETIA DEWBERRY. 



LllCretia. — The standard dewberry, earlier than the earliest blackberry 

 and as large as the largest of them. The canes are of great hardiness and 

 exceedingly prolific, thriving everywhere; of slender trailing habit, and 

 entirely free from disease and insect attacks. The fruit is superb, large and 

 handsome, jet black, rich and melting, and ships and keeps well. I grow 

 the Lucretia largely for market having had as many as fifty acres in fruit 

 at one time. 



