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varieties, and are to be preferred in sections where the borers are not 

 troublesome. Victoria is a valuable market sort where borers are 

 numerous, as it is little injured by them. The same is also true of 

 (Prince) Albert, which is little attacked by currant worms and is 

 particularly valuable as a late sort. White Dutch and White Grape 

 are valuable light-colored varieties, and (Black) Naples as a variety 

 for jelly. London (London Market) is also proving to be satisfactory 

 in some sections. 



Dewberry. — The dewberry may be called an early trailing black- 

 berry. The culture is very simple. Support 

 should be given to the canes, as they are very 

 slender and rank growers. A wire trellis or large- 

 meshed fence-wire answers admirably; or (and this 

 is the better general method) they may be tied to 

 stakes. The fruits are large and showy, which, 

 combined with their earliness, makes them desir- 

 able ; but they are usually deficient in flavor. The 

 Lucretia (Fig. 276) is the leading variety. 



Lay the canes on the ground in winter. In the 

 spring tie all the canes from each plant to a stake. 

 After fruiting, cut the old canes and burn them (as 

 for blackberries). In the meantime, the young 

 canes (for next year's fruiting) are growing. These 

 may be tied up as they grow, to be out of the way 



„„„ , ... of the cultivator. Dewberries are one to two 

 276. Lucretia dew- 

 berry, weeks earlier than blackberries. 



Fig. — The fig is little grown in the East except as a curiosity, but 

 on the Pacific coast it has gained considerable prominence as an orchard 

 fruit. Figs will stand considerable frost, and seedling or inferior 

 varieties grow out-of-doors without protection as far north as Virginia. 

 Many of the varieties fruit on young sprouts, and, inasmuch as the 

 roots will stand considerable cold, these varieties will often give a few 

 figs in the northern states. Figs have been fruited in the open ground 

 in Michigan. In regions having ten degrees of frost, the fig should be 

 laid down in winter. For this purpose the plants are pruned to branch 

 from the ground, and the soft tops are bent to the surface and covered 



