CLIBRANS’ LIST OF FRUITS, 1909-10. 
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BLACKBERRIES. 
Most of these are quite hardy, and succeed well under similar culture 
to the Raspberry. The fruits are large, handsome and delicious, either 
raw, cooked, or preserved. 
STRONG PLANTS FROM OPEN GROUND 6d. each, 4/6 per doz. 
PLANTS IN POTS, 9d. each, 6/- per doz. 
No 
1 Ancient Briton, long purplish-black berries of a rich mild flavour; 
early and free. 
2 Best of All, berries very large ; of a delicious flavour. 
13 Kittatinny, large, glossy black, juicy and sweet. 
20 Mersereau, large, bright glossy black fruit, produced in great 
abundance, free grower and exceptionally hardy. 
15 Parsley-leaved, (laciniatus), grows freely and fruits abundantly ; in 
many respects the most serviceable of all. 
26 Rathbun, large glossy jet black fruits, delicious flavour ; very hardy, 
and a good grower ; heavy bearer, early. 
27 Snyder, medium size, sweet and melting ; hardy and productive. 
31 Wilson Junr., large, luscious and sweet ; hardy and productive. 
CHERRIES. 
Cherries thrive on almost any free-working, deep, sweet, well-drained 
soil, provided they have plenty of fresh air. When the soil is wet with 
stagnant water, as in low lying localities and in soils over an undrained 
clay subsoil, the trees are liable to gumming and various other diseases. 
A stagnant atmosphere is almost equally injurious, and indeed the more 
open the situation, the more favourable it is to the cultivation of Cherries. 
Wherever the soil shows the slightest tendency to sourness, this should be 
checked by the application of lime. On clay soils a dressing of 2lbs. of 
quicklime to the square yard will always prove a beneficial preparation 
for this crop. On loams and deep sands, old lime, mortar rubble, etc., is 
to be preferred, at the rate of 4 to 61bs. to the square yard. After the trees, 
have been planted a year, a dressing of superphosphate of lime at the rate 
,,f 3 oz to the square yard will be found of considerable value 111 promoting 
the formation of sound ripe wood and increasing the productiveness of the 
trees This should be repeated every third year. Where the growth is not 
sufficiently vigorous, Blood Manure at the rate of Jib. to the square yard 
will be followed with excellent results if applied in the early Spring. It 
should not be used however for Cherries upon a North wall. These 
manures after application, should be raked in to a depth of an inch or two. 
All Cherries grow well as a rule upon an East wall. Where early crops 
are wanted, a South wall is of course preferable. On a West wall, par- 
ticularly in a wet district, the fruit is liable to crack. 
