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W. F. Allen's Plant and Seed Catalogue, Salisbury, Md. 



The Dewberry i s 

 constantly growing in 

 favor and is today, next 

 to the strawberry, the 

 most popular of all the 

 small fruits. The vines 

 trail on the gTound 

 like a sweet potato 

 vine. In size and quali- 

 ty !t >s the equal of any 

 blackberry and greatly 

 exceeds them in pro- 

 ductiveness. Thcplant 

 is perfectly hardy and 

 commences ripening its 

 fruit immediately after 

 late straw berries. In- 

 deed, by planting the 

 latest varieties of 

 strawberries and ear- 

 liest dewberries, there 

 need not be a single 

 day's gap between the 

 two. The dewberry is 

 sweet and luscious with 

 few seeds and no hard 

 core. The fruit has be- 

 come very popular in 

 all markets where 

 known, and more and 

 more are being grown 

 every year ani nearly 

 always marketed at 

 paying prices. If let 

 trail on the ground they 

 should be well mulched 

 to keep the immense 

 load of fruit from be- 

 ing spoiled by falling 

 on the ground. The 

 best way. however, is 

 to stake them as shown 

 in our illustration. This 

 illustration is a true 

 copy of a photograph 

 made from two hills of 

 Lucretias in full bear- 

 ing tied to a stake. 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 



Two Hills Of Dewberries Tied To A Stake. 



cultivate only the wide way and turn vines to keep the culti- tween each alternate hill the two and one-half foot way. The 

 tor from tearing them off; or, better yet, use sweeps on your stakes should be two and one-half or three feet above tho 

 cultivator. These will run under the vines and weed up the ground and one hill from each way tied to the top of the 

 grass without disturbing them. Leave vines lay on the stake (see illustration). Or where timber for stakes i s 

 ground till all danger of winter killing is over, and then early scarce they can he used at longer intervals by using wire to lay 

 in the spring before buds put out, stakes should bo driven be- th e vines over, same as grapes. I use binder twine for 



tying to stakes. When grow* as above directed the plot 



or field in bloom is prettier than you can imagine, and 



V^PltiJ V /^B18agBJa>y _*f«^§M7 when fruit comes it is the wonder, admiration and delight 



rPAi'-'^ J ^ ^^^jt^mk^W&M^^ ^'&fK f^ LUCRETIA. -The standard dewberry, earlier than tho 



YAi^ ^SEjSH^ffiB^i&K/J^ - ' *^ ■'-. ^^ ' earliest blackberry and as large as the largest of there. 



" ™ kHtt: B§5/ The canes are of great hardiness and exceedingly prolific, 



thriving everywhere ; of slender trailing habit, and en- 

 tirely 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. 



PREHO.— This remarkable dewberry is asport from the 

 grand old Lucretia. The great profitableness of the Lu- 

 cretia with many growers has been because it. was the 

 earliest of the blackberry family to ripen. Now we have 

 Premo, still earlier and larger ; that means extra money in 

 the market and an earlier taste of delicious dewberries for 

 the family. Premo has imperfect flowers, and so in plant- 

 ing, every third or fourth row should be of Lucretia; or, 

 better yet, whereone is equally fond of both varieties, they 

 can be planted in alternate rows. Remember that Premo 

 is a delicious, jrt-eat blackberry, that begins to ripen when 

 the raspberry season is half over. (See illustration, p. 23.) 



AUSTIN'S 1HPROVED.— (Mayes.) -An Parly dewberry 

 of excellent quality and large yield, but the berries lack 

 firmness for long shipment; hence valuable chiefly for 

 home use and local markets. Berries large, short and 

 thick, canes vigorous, hardy and productive; ripens fully 

 a week earlier than Lurctia, and for this reason is valu- 

 able to grow in connection with that var'ety. I have 

 shipped many thousands of quarts of this variety to Phila- 

 delphia, 125 miles, and New York, over 200 miles, and received good prices, 

 having- marketed over half of the crnp before olher varieties are in the way. 

 I always plant about One-third of my field in this vnriety. It is very hardy 

 and never fails to give a full crop. I have a fine stock of all tke varieties. 



