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are so inferior in size and so “seedy” as to 
he promptly rejected by the grower of real- 
ly choice fruit. It should be added also 
that the lateness of the Taylor detracts from 
its value to a large degree. Wachusett 
Thornless is hardy and of superior quality, 
but it is so small in size; and, outside of a 
limited area, where it originated, is decided- 
ly unproductive. Early Harvest possessed 
much value by reason of its extreme earli- 
produced? We are not prepared to answer 
in the affirmative as yet, but we can say 
that the variety here illustrated comes more 
nearly to it than any we have yet seen; and 
we are disposed to believe, aftercareful trial 
and critical examination, covering a period 
of three years, that it will “ fill the entire 
bill.” Lovett’s Best is the best, all things 
considered, upon our trial grounds. Like 
the illustrious Kittatinny and Wilson it is 
Lovett’s Best Blackberry. 
If there is anything that the fruitgrowers 
and gardeners of the United States need 
more just at the present time than a thor- 
oughly good and reliable blackberry we are 
unable to name what it is. The difficulty 
encountered in the culture of this health- 
imparting and important fruit has been not 
so much to find varieties that would 
produce fine fruit, but those without one 
or more serious, 
and in many local- 
ities, fatal defects. 
TheKittatinny and 
Lawton, two noble 
sorts, which have 
perhaps done more 
towards populariz- 
ing the culture of 
the blackberry 
than any others, 
have been of late 
years so generally 
and so badly affect- 
with the so-called 
“Orange Rust” 
fungus (Cceoma ni- 
tens ) as to render 
their culture un- 
profitable or a fail- 
ure; while the he- 
ro, Wilson, has 
succumbed to the mysterious double or 
“rose blossom;” rendering it unfruitful, and 
so feeble as to be an easy victim to Jack 
Frost. Kittatinny, Lawton and Wilson all 
produce berries of the largest size under 
proper culture, but none were ever what 
might be termed of “ironclad” hardihood 
of cane, even in their palmy days; and they 
must all now be regarded as belonging to 
the glories of the past. Both Snyder and 
Taylor’s Prolific possess great hardihood of 
cane and are very productive. They are 
the pioneers of their class and have served 
their purpose well at the far North, butboth 
Lovett’s Best Blackberry. Fig. 464. 
ness and enormous yield. Its defects are its 
diminutive size, lack of flavor and tender- 
ness of cane. Some of the newer soils; such 
as Erie, Minnewaski, Early King, and Lu- 
cretia Dewberry, to a degree supply the re- 
quirements of the fruit-growing and fruit- 
consuming public, but what is evidently 
needed is a blackberry of good size and 
quality, exempt from disease and produc- 
tive and sufficiently enduring in both cane 
and foliage to succeed at tin North, 
South, East and West. This is requiring a 
vast deal of a single variety indeed, and has 
such a blackberry been or is it likely to be 
a product of New 
Jersey soil and has 
been thus far abso- 
lutely exempt 
from the attacks 
of disease. The 
cane is of strong 
growth and has 
never been injured 
by frost, even in 
the slightest de- 
gree. In produc- 
tiveness and qual- 
ity it is second to 
none, in size me- 
dium to large. Its 
season of ripening 
is second early, 
giving its first 
picking with the 
second picking of 
Wilson and in ad- 
vance of Kittatinny, Lawton, etc. It has 
now been subjected to a fired test by the 
originator and some of his neighbors by the 
side of the Wilson and other popular sorts 
for the past six years — surpassing in yield 
and profit by far ail others, each and every 
season. It has also been placed on trial in 
every State Experimental Station in the Un- 
ion. It may not be amiss to add that in our 
search for the ideal blackberry we have on 
several occasions had good reasons, before 
trial, to believe we had found it, only to be 
disappointed later. At last we can freely 
and unreservedly shout” Eureka.” 
