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Linn County Nursery, Center Point, Iowa 
DEWBERRIES 
Great care and peculiar treatment are necessary for successful 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 7 feet apart and 4 to 5 feet in the row. Begin 
pruning by pinching out the ends of the canes as soon as they reach a length of 3 feet 
and of the laterals when they reach 2 feet. In the fall prune away all but six of the 
best canes to each hill and these canes to a length of 4 to 5 feet. Press them closely 
to the ground lengthwise of the row and cover with 3 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. 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 un- 
equaled 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 
Californii, from Minnesota to Florida, is something phenomenal in small fruit culture. 
Its trailing habit renders it less liable to winter-kill. 10 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz., 
$3 per 100, $20 per 1,000. 
STRAWBERRIES 
No one owning a home or, for that matter one who is renting 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 can 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 bur- 
dens 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 3/^1 to 4 feet apart, and i to 3 feet in the row, but for hand culture, one by 2 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 ap[)ear the first season; this throws all the strength into a good stand of new 
plants for the next year. 
About November i 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. 
Now dig enough of these new plants to start a new bed, which treat as before, and 
as soon as the crop is off plow the old bed under. Keep this up year after year and 
you will have the finest fruit that can be produced. 
