1909. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1080 
Ruralisms 
THE LOGANBERRY. 
Much has been said and written about 
the great and wonderful things Luther 
Burbank has done for the fruit-growers 
of this country, especially for California. 
It is not my purpose at this time to de¬ 
tract from the reputation of our plant- 
creator, but I wish to make it under¬ 
stood that this genius of the plant world 
is not the whole thing in this State by 
any means. We had plant-breeders in 
California before ever he came to the 
coast; men who did good and valuable 
work in a quiet and modest way. Some 
of them have gone to unknown and un¬ 
honored graves, when, probably, they 
deserved public recognition, if not suit¬ 
able monuments over their resting 
places. And other States have had their 
plant-breeders, and some of them, too, 
have been allowed to depart this world 
without the recognition they were justly 
entitled to, for instance Jacob Moore, 
of New York; H. A. Terry, the great 
paeony hybridist of Iowa, recently de¬ 
care to cat it from the hand; some like 
it as a table fruit, but its best use is as 
a preserving fruit. It mixes well with 
either raspberry or blackberry jam, and 
I am told, it is splendid for jellies. This 
berry has been the forerunner of several 
other hybrids of more or less merit, but 
none of them has so far given any 
evidence of superseding the original. 
My father raised a number of seedlings 
of the Loganberry: some were exactly 
like the parent; many were scrubs; one 
has beautiful golden variegated foliage, 
and one is a decided improvement as to 
color and flavor, and the berry runs a 
trifle larger. Some of the seedlings pro¬ 
duced large berries, many of them show¬ 
ing double fruit. There was quite a 
variance in the leaves: some would be 
like the parent; some smaller and crum¬ 
pled; some larger, some darker and 
some lighter, and one variegated, as al¬ 
ready noted. 
My father, A. D. Pryal, a pioneer 
nurseryman and horticulturist of this 
State, died two years ago before he had 
time to select and propagate the choic¬ 
est of these seedlings. I was too busy 
LOGANBERRIES. Fig. 589. 
Common Blackberries on Left. Pryal Improved Loganberry Below. 
ceased. Then there are also Patten and 
others of the West, who did and are 
doing much to produce and develop 
strong-growing and productive fruit for 
that section of the country. 
Here in California the greatest fruit 
of the small-class order was originated 
at Santa Cruz, less than 90 miles south 
of San Francisco. The originator should 
rank as a genius—as one of the great 
benefactors of the horticultural interests 
of the Coast. I refer to Judge Logan, a 
jurist of no mean ability and an amateur 
horticulturist worthy of more than pass¬ 
ing notice. Yet he is hardly ever men¬ 
tioned. It seems almost useless for me 
to write of the Loganberry, yet, I un¬ 
derstand, it is little known beyond the 
Pacific States. Already it is being more 
largely grown in Oregon and Washing¬ 
ton than it is in its native .State, mainly, 
I believe, because the moist climate of 
those States is admirably conducive to 
its culture. As known, it is a cross be¬ 
tween a red raspberry and the native 
California dewberry, though some have 
said that its black parent was a hybrid 
blackberry produced by a hybridist in 
Alameda some thirty years ago. The 
fruit is odd-looking; it might be called 
a purple “blackberry,” as its color is of 
a reddish-purple. The flavor is strongly 
acid, unless the fruit is fully ripe, when 
it is rather pleasant and cooling. Few 
with other matters and had to neglect 
them, and, as a consequence, several 
have been lost. I propagated a few of 
what I considered the very best. One 
is an almost transparent scarlet of ro¬ 
bust growth and a prolific bearer; the 
fruit is unlike the original, inasmuch as 
it is sweet without being insipid. In all 
other respects it is a true Loganberry. 
I have tried to show the fruit in the 
two lower clusters in the center of the 
accompanying photographic reproduc¬ 
tion. Fig. 589. The cluster at the right 
and the cluster at the top show the 
original Loganberry; the bunch at the 
left is a common blackberry added for 
comparison. 
The Loganberry is of easy culture; 
easier than the dewberry of commerce. 
The vines are rapid growers and should 
be trailed on a trellis. Some use a sort 
of wire fence and run the vines on the 
different wires. I notice that in the great 
Loganberry-growing district at Pajaro, 
near Watsonville, this State, a low trel¬ 
lis of a singe scantling or board, not 
much more than 18 inches from the 
ground, is used, and all the vines are 
bunched on top thereof and tied. This 
makes it much easier to cultivate them. 
The fruit ships fairly well, but it does 
not sell as readily or for so good a price 
as red raspberries; however, it sells in 
some quarters better than blackberries. 
It grows best in a fairly rich, sandy or 
loamy soil and should have a sufficiency 
of water. w. a. pryal. 
Oakland, Cal. 
R. N.-Y.—The Loganberry appears to 
succeed well in Great Britain, and we 
have seen very appreciative notices of 
it in English horticultural journals. The 
climate of northern Europe is especially 
congenial to bramble fruits. 
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