LINN COUNTY NURSERY, CENTER POINT, IOWA 
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Dewberries 
Management — Great care and peculiar treatment are necessary for suc- 
cessful Dewberry growing. They do best on high, well drained clay soil, 
but can be grown with reasonable success on almost any good soil. Plant 
In rows seven feet apart and four to five feet in the row. Begin pruning by 
pinch'.ng out the ends of the canes as soon as they reach a length of three 
feet and of the laterals when they reach two feet. In the fall prune away 
all but six of the best canes to each hill and these canes to a length of four 
to five feet. Press them closely to the ground lengthwise of the row and 
cover with three inches of forest leaves or by throwing a light furrow upon 
them. Uncover in spring when all danger of freezing is past and tie to a 
wire trellis. 
Lucretia Dewberry 
Claimed to be the best of the blackberry family, as productive as any. The 
berries are far larger and Incomparably better than any blackberry, and of 
unequaled excellence; soft, sweet and luscious throughout; of brightest, glossy 
black color. The Lucretia Dewberry has received the indorsement and highest 
praise from the best horticulturists in the country. Its eminent success in 
all soils, from Maine to California, from Minnesota to Florida, is something 
phenomenal in small fruit culture. Its trailing habit renders it less liable to 
winter-kill. Price, 10c each; 75c per dozen; $3.00 per 100; $20.00 per 1,000. 
Strawberries 
No one owning a home, or for that matter having one rented for a term 
of years, can put a little money to better use than to buy three or four 
hundred plants of the standard variety of strawberry. Give them the 
proper care and a good sized family will hardly use all the fruit they will 
produce the next season after planting. Nothing will bring quicker and 
greater satisfaction to the planter, more keen delight to his children, or 
lessen the burdens of his good wife in providing for the table than a well 
kept strawberry bed. The best time to plant strawberries is in early spring 
and on fertile new soil, or old land brought to a high state of cultivation. 
If horses are to be used in cultivating, plant in rows three and one-half to 
four feet apart, and one to three feet in the row, but for hand culture, one 
by two feet will answer. Here is the plan we have found the most profitable 
and always gives large, fine fruit: Set plants as early in spring as the 
season will permit; pinch off all the blossom stalks which appear the first 
season; this throws all the strength into a good stand of new plants for the 
next year. About November 
1st cover with rye or wheat 
straw just deep enough so 
they can come up through it; 
if too much is on. remove a 
part of it when spring comes 
and leave the rest of it to 
keep the berries off the soil. 
Dig enough of these new 
plants to start a new bed, 
which treat as before, and as 
soon as the crop is off plow 
under the old bed, and keep 
this up year after year and 
you will have the finest fruit 
that can be produced. 
Our plants are strictly nur- 
sery grown and will give far 
greater satisfaction than can possibly be obtained with plants taken from 
an old fruiting bed. Such plants are not worth the digging. 
Out of a long list of more than thirty varieties which we used to cat- 
alogue we now retain but one, THE SENATOR DUNDAP. Probably no other 
variety of any fruit was ever Introduced which gave as universal satisfaction 
as this one. Every claim that was made for it has been more than met. Some 
of the claims that were made for It, and which have been tested, are: 
1. A clean, healthy and vigorous plant, capable of resisting intense cold, 
and severe drouth, and making an abundance of good and strong plants when 
almost every other variety falls. 
Wrong Way to Plnnt 
Right Way to Plant 
Write to os nbont anything yon want not fonnd In this catalog; we can 
furnish almost anything, «t reasonable prices, that Is grown by any American 
nurseryman. 
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