Blackberries 
In garden culture, blackberries should be planted in rows 6 feet apart, and the plants 
about 4 feet apart in the rows; in field culture plant in rows 8 feet apart, and the plants 3 
feet apart in the rows. The tops should be cut off to about 3% feet, and should not 
be so closely pruned in the spring; otherwise their culture should be the same as for rasp- 
berries. 
Blackberries produce about $350.00 worth of fruit per acre on the average. 
because of its productiveness and general 
adaptability to all locations. It is the black- 
berry for every fruit grower desiring to make 
a start in blackberries, who has not the means 
to buy the high priced varieties. Keep the 
soil rich with barnyard manure and wood 
ashes and no one will complain of the size of 
the Snyder. This is the standard early sort 
for the North and is very popular. This was 
the first of the hardy kinds that made a sen- 
sation over the country. With good culture 
it is large enough to satisfy all. The severest 
frost does not bite it. Season early; oblong 
oval in form; quality good. 
The Ward Blackberry — The plant is re- 
markably vigorous and healthy, free from 
rust, well branched yet making strong, erect 
fruiting canes enabling them to carry and de- 
velop their immense loads of fruit. 
Rathbun 
Eldorado — Eldorado now stands high above 
any other blackberry, and all agree that it 
has never winter-killed or failed to produce 
a full crop of the finest fruit. While it is of 
superior flavor and very large, the vines will 
also stand the winters of the far northwest 
without injury. The yield is enormous, the 
fruit being jet black, in large clusters, ripen- 
ing well together. Very sweet and without 
core. 
Rathbun — Fruit is of enormous size, far 
surpassing that of any other variety, 45 ber- 
ries filling a quart box, single specimens 
measure 1% inches in length, and the whole 
crop is very uniform. Fruit is quite firm, 
sweet, with no core, and ships well. Plant is 
not very hardy. 
Snyder Blackberry— This popular, hardy 
and profitable blackberry is known every- 
where and planted largely. Where other va- 
rieties have entirely failed it proved itself 
entirely hardy. It is also grown in localities 
where hardiness is not the first consideration 
Snyder 
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