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W. F. ALLEN'S PLANT AND SEED CATALOGUE. 



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A FINE FIELD OF DEWBERRIES. 



The Dewberry is constantly growing in favor and is 

 today next to the Strawberry the most popular of all 

 the small fruits. The vines trail on the ground like a 

 sweet potato vine. In size and quality it is the equal of 

 any blackberry and greatly exceeds them in productive- 

 ness. The plant is perfectly hardy and commences 

 ripening its fruit immediately after late strawberries. 



Lucretia Dewberries. 



Indeed by planting the latest varieties of strawberries 

 and earliest dewberries there need not be a single day's 

 gap between the two. The dewberry is sweet and lus- 

 cious with few seeds and no hard core. The fruit has 

 become very popular in all markets where known and 

 more and more are being grown every year and nearly 

 always marketed at paying prices. If let trail on the 

 ground they should be well mulched to keep the im- 

 mense load of fruit from being 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 one year 

 old dewberries tied to a stake three and one-half feet 

 high. The photograph was taken after the sixth pick- 

 ing and I could 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 cul- 

 tivators such as offered in my spring cata- 

 logue. These will run under the vines and 

 weed up the grass without disturbing 

 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 al- 

 ternate hill the two and one-half foot way. 

 The stakes should be two and one-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 

 stakes is scarce they can be used at longer 

 intervals by using wire to lay the vines 

 over, same as grapes I use binder twine 

 for 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.— 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 



