Fruit Department — Blackberries, Etc. 
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BLACKBERRIES 
T HE improved cultivated Blackberry is of greater size, sweeter, finer flavor, 
has fewer seeds than the wild sorts, and will produce fruit to perfection and 
in profusion wherever the wild ones are found. The earlier sorts ripen within a 
week of the end of strawberry season, and the other varieties give a long season 
by maturing at intervals for six weeks or more. 
The new canes, which grow in May and June, grow the fruit of next summer. 
In July cut the tops of new canes to about 3 feet, so they will thicken up and 
prepare for the crop to be borne next season. In the late fall cut out the old 
canes that fruited the past season. Plant in rows 4 feet apart and 3 feet apart in 
the row. 
Prices, 25 cents for 10, SI. 50 per IOO 
Early Harvest. The earliest ; medium 
size ; very firm ; productive. About May 25. 
Erie. Large, early berry of good quality. 
Hardy and productive. 
Kittatinny. An old and popular variety ; 
large ; handsome, and of the best quality. 
Ripe as soon as black. 
Rathbun. A new variety of great promise; 
extra large, jet-black berry, of excellent 
quality. Makes few suckers and propagates 
mostly from the tips. 
Snyder. Medium in size ; very sweet ; a 
great producer. Particularly valuable for 
northern growing, as it does not winter-kill. 
DEWBERRIES 
Low-growing, trailing Blackberries 
Austin’s Improved. A variety from Texas 
having great merit. Large ; glossy black ; 
sweet and melting ; fine quality ; an early, 
heavy bearer. 50 cents for 10, $2 per 100. 
Lucretia. Large, tender, juicy and lus- 
cious ; a profuse bearer ; ripens before the 
earliest Blackberries, and continues for three 
weeks. 25 cents for 10, $1.50 per 100. 
RASPBERRIES 
Plant in rows six feet apart, four fe 
is harvested cut out all the canes that 
about two feet, so they may branch and 
season’s crop. 
Prices, 50 cents 
Cuthbert. Red. One of the best and most 
reliable of Red Raspberries for the South. 
Large ; excellent quality and very prolific. 
Ripens here end of May and continues 
several weeks. 
Gregg. Black. The standard “Black 
:et apart in the row. As soon as the crop 
bore fruit, and cut back the new canes to 
become self-supporting ready for the next 
for 10, $2 per IOO 
Cap ” for market and garden. Berries good 
size ; firm ; fine flavor ; very productive. 
Golden Queen. Yellow. Large ; beautiful 
golden yellow ; a seedling of the Cuthbert, 
and has many of the parent characteristics. 
A good berry. 
This year we marketed Lucretia June 5, just at the close of the strawberry season, when 
the market was bare of berries. The demand was great — 10 cents per quart being realized for 
our entire crop. 
