Vol. XLIV. No. 1865. NEW YORK, OCTOBER 24, 1885. price five cents. 
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_(Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1885, by the Rural New-Yorker In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.] 
to its trailing habit, I do not value it as much 
as several sorts of blackberries we have; per¬ 
haps I do not know how it should be treated 
to secure the best results. 
Moorostown, N. J. 
FROM J. T. LOVETT. 
I have fruited many Dewberries, such as 
the Mammoth, Bartles, etc. All bloomed 
freely but shed their blossoms, proving un¬ 
productive and worthless. For this reason 
the Lucretia Dewberry is a pleasing surprise. 
I have now fruited it two years,and find it both 
hardy and productive, and of “mammoth” 
LUCRETIA DEWBERRY.—(Prom Nature.) As it fruited last season at the Rural 
Grounds. Fig. 404. 
ripening early—July 20th. When fully ripe, 
I think it as good as the best blackberry i 
have ever tasted; but as it colors some little 
time before it is ripe, and while it is still too 
sour to be good, that might be an objection. 
In size I thought it averaged larger than any 
blackberry I had ever seen. Its trailing habit 
might or might not be an objection in cultiva¬ 
tion. It runs along nearly recumbent, the 
weight of its fruit causing much of it to lie 
upon the ground, and requiring some kind of 
mulch upon the surface to keep it clean. As 
grown in Miami County in this State, it seems 
to be very successful, and is certainly very 
j§0trtkuilnrfd. 
THE LUCRETIA DEWBERRY. 
NOTES FROM GEO. W. CAMPBELL, J. T. LOVETT, 
J. S. COLLINS, T. T. LYON,WILLIAM PARRY, R. G. 
CHASE & CO , CHAS. A. GREEN, J. H. HALE. 
ITHERTO we are not 
aware that the Dewberry 
(Rubus Canadensis) has 
held any recognized place 
among cultivated small 
fruits. Several varieties 
have been talked of from 
time to time, but have soon 
been forgotten. 
A few specimens of the 
the Lucretia Dewberry 
were ordered from Mr. J. 
T. Lovett, of New Jersey, 
last May, one of which 
fruited daring the Sum¬ 
mer, aud a fruiting branch of it is faithfully 
shown at Fig. -4(>4. It ripeued with Early 
Harvest, the earliest of all the kinds growing 
at the Rural Grounds. The berries and drupes 
are large, aud though of good quality when 
fully ripe, they are rather sour if picked 
sooner. This may be said of al 1 blackberries; 
but more especially of this, if judged from its 
first season of fruiting. The vines are thus 
far hardy. As, if left to themselves, they 
would cover too much land, it i9 a question 
for others to decide whether it would pay to 
give them support by trellises or otherwise. 
FROM R. G. CHASE & CO. 
W>- have fruited the Lucretia Dewberry 
this year, and found the fruit to be of good 
size, perhaps we should properly say, of large 
size aud good quality. The vine is with us a 
free grower. For home use, we deem it a desir¬ 
able thiug, but it is too soft to ship. It did 
not suffer any from the severity of the past 
Winter, although it received no special care. 
Geneva, N. Y. 
FROM WILLIAM PARRY. 
The Lucretia Dewberry has been cultivated 
here two or three years. It is a strong, vig¬ 
orous grower aud hardy. Fruit large, early 
aud of gooi quality. Its trailing habit ren¬ 
ders support of some kind necessary to hold up 
the vines. The plan we have adopted is to 
lift the vines occasionally over wire extended 
along the whole leugth of the row, supported 
by stakes driven into the grouud about one 
rod apart. To increase the number of vines, 
in the latter part of Summer und early Fall 
with a trowel set the tips in the ground, point¬ 
ing downward. They send up no suckers. We 
have planted some hills in the rows of Wilson 
Jr. and other high-bush blackberries, over 
which they trail nicely, for the purpose of 
ljybridizing or cross fertilizing tlve blossoms:. 
Parry, N. J. 
FROM PRES. T. T. LYON. 
I have now fruited the Lucretia Dewberry 
three years. Aside from the trailiug habit of 
the class, aud the consequent liability of the 
fruit to become soiled or injured from con¬ 
tact with the earth, I regard it as very desir¬ 
able, since the fruit is very large—quite as 
large as thut cif the Kittatinny Blackberry— 
and of very good flavor. Besides, It ripens 
before the early blackberries, nearly or quite 
as early as the earliest black-cups. With me 
it has so far boon very productive, yielding a 
fair crop this year, when nearly all the 
blackberries fail to fruit in consequence of in¬ 
jury from the severe cold of last Winter. 
South Haven, Mich. 
FROM J. S. COLLINS. 
Ihe Lucretia Dewberry produces large 
berries, of good quality aud early: but owing 
size in very truth. All who do not plant it 
will make a mistake. I am yet unable to rec¬ 
ommend it for market growing, haviug fruited 
it only in my trial grounds. 
Little Silver, N. J. 
FROM SEC. OEO. W. CAMPBELL. 
So far as I have knowledge of the Lucretia 
Dewberry, my impressions are favorable. I 
have not fruited it sufficiently to give auy per- 
soual experience; but I have seen it in bearing 
and found it enormously productive, aud 
large, very productive aud very good. I can 
see no reason why it should not be a good aud 
profitable fruit for general use, unless its 
trailing habit of growth should be objection¬ 
able. 
Delaware, Ohio. 
FROM CHAS. A. GREEN. 
The habit of growth of the Lucretia Dew¬ 
berry on our grounds is much like that of the 
Evergreen Blackberry; but it is not nearly so 
vigorous. The first year the branches lie only 
about six inches from the ground, and then 
commence to trail. They may be propagated 
by burying the tips, the same as raspberries. 
The quality of the fruit is claimed to be 
superior by those who are interested in in¬ 
troducing it; but at the recent meeting of the 
American Pomological Society, it was stated 
that the quality was inferior. 
Clifton. N. Y. 
FROM J. H HALE. * 
Thecommon wild dewberry has always been 
tome the most delicious of all the blackberry 
family, and in the hopes of finding one worth 
cultivation, I have bought, for testing, every 
new sort that has been offered for some years 
past; but the Lucretia is the first and only 
one that has ever given promise of being 
valuable, not only as a delicious family berry, 
but also for market, especially here in New 
England where the valuable early market 
varieties are not hardy enough to stand our 
Winters. The trailing habit of the Lucretia 
renders it a.very easy plant to protect through 
the Winter, as it is not quite hardy here. It 
is wonderfully prolific of extremely large ber¬ 
ries, of jet black color, rather soft for a black¬ 
berry and in quality far superior to any other 
cultivated blackberry or dewberry I have 
ever tested. I have lots of faith in it, but it 
has not been tested long enough here in the 
East to warrant any one planting it very ex¬ 
tensively till we know more about it. Two or 
three other sorts haviug been sent out as Lu¬ 
cretia for a year or two past, I fear that the 
opinions in regard to it will be likely to be 
rather mixed for a few years to come. 
South Glastonbury, Conn. 
ORIGIN OF THE LCCRETIA DEWBERRY. 
e have counted 10b berries on a single 
stem, but 2S inches long. Many prominent 
horticulturists pronounce it a great acquisi¬ 
tion (when genuine), many spurious plants 
being offered and sold for the Lucretia. 
Its history is as follows: A soldier stationed 
near Beverly, W. Va-, found it in the woods, 
a chance, natural seedling. After the war he 
returned to the scene of his military exploits, 
married one of Virginia's fair daughters, and 
settled down near-by, and remembering his 
old favorite of war times, he sought out the 
plant, removed it to his garden and gave it 
careful cultivation. Here it was seen by a son 
of one of our neighbors. This young man’s 
father saw the fruit in 1ST6, while on his way 
to Philadelphia, and upon his return to Ohio, 
he told such stories of the size, quality, and 
fruitfulness of the plants, that we induced the 
old geutleman, whose name was Williams, to 
have the plants removed to Ohio. 
1 he plaut is a trailer and can be easily and 
cheaply protected, where necessary, though 
ours stood the intense cold of last Winter, 
without any artificial protection whatever. 
It propagates from tips, ripens usually about 
the middle of J uly. In quality it is sweet with¬ 
out core. The color is very bright, shining 
black. N. H. ALBAUGH & SONS. 
Covington, Miami Co., O. 
Slifrp i)itsbant)nj. 
lUral |X. J am 
RAISING WINTER LAMBS. 
the reason why 
we do not keep the ewes over aud raise lambs 
from them more than one season, does not 
seem to be apparent; to many of our friends, 
and they have asked to have it made plainer. 
As we have have said, we want the lambs 
ready for market as early as possible. We 
want them just as fat as we can make them, 
in order to get the highest price and make the 
most money. Now we have found that in 
