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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 cul- 
ture plant in rows 8 feet apart, and the plants 
3 feet apart in the rows. The tops should 
not be cut off till about 3^4 feet high, and 
should not be so closely pruned in the spring; 
otherwise their culture should be the same as 
for raspberries. 
Blackberries produce about $350.00 worth 
of fruit per acre on the average. 
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 north- 
west without injury. The yield is enormous, 
the fruit being jet black, in large clusters, 
ripening well together.' Very sweet and with- 
out core. 
Bathbun — 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 — An old, well-known variety. Very 
hardy, will endure severe cold without injury. 
Medium size. 
The Ward Blackberry — The plant is re- 
markably vigorous and healthy, free from 
rust, well branched yet making strong, err>ct 
fruiting canes enabling them to carry and 
develop their immense loads of fruit. 
Merserau — This variety has been well 
tested and found to be perfectly hardy. It 
makes very large canes, is very productive, 
of large size, delicious quality, hangs on the 
bushes till fully ripe, does not turn red in the 
baskets, has an unusually long season. 
Lucretia Dewberry — The best of the "black- 
berry family and decidedly the most produc- 
tive. The berries are far larger and incom- 
parably better than any blackberry, and of 
unequaled excellence; sWeet and luscious 
throughout. Should be covered like straw- 
berries in winter..'. . - 
Rhubarb 
Myatt's Linnaeus — Those who have never 
grown this variety^'which is of svperior qual- 
ity, will hardly recognize the bid "Pie- 
Plant." It is an early, tender variety, not in 
the least tough or stringy, with a mild, sub- 
acid flavor. 
Nut Trees 
Walnut, Black — A native tree of large size, 
beautiful foliage. Very valuable for its tim- 
ber. A rapid growing tree, producing a large, 
round nut of excellent quality. 
Walnut, Japan— A tree of great vigor, per- 
fectly hardy. Handsome form, immense green 
leaves, bearing heart-shaped, pointed nuts in 
clusters of twelve or fifteen each at tips of 
previous season 's branches. Meat sweet and 
of superior quality. Tree commences bearing 
when young. 
Chestnut, Japanese — These are among the 
most valuable and begin to bear at two or 
three years of age, the nuts measuring 4 to 5 
inches in circumference, and running three 
to seven in a burr. They ripen very early and 
do not require frost to open the burrs. 
Chestnut, Spanish— Seedling. A handsome, 
round-headed tree of rapid growth, yielding 
abundantly, large nuts of good quality. 
Chestnut, Paragon— Grafted. Tree very 
vigorous, and upright grower, hardy and pro- 
ductive. Nuts large, kernel fine-grained, 
sweet and of good quality. 
