I have heard objection to some of the 
blackberries because they were so 
thorny, but I have never seen one that 
remotely compared with the Haupts in 
that respect. The canes are thickly cov¬ 
ered with sharp curving thorns of the 
most vicious type, and whoever under¬ 
takes to grow them must be prepared 
for a conflict. Mr. Ramsey advises that 
all the type as well as the real dew¬ 
berries, be mowed off to the ground 
after bearing, for they will then grow 
canes enough for a crop and not be 
burdened with surplus wood, but this 
would not do in the North. As for a 
pollenizer in Texas, the Austin dew¬ 
berry and Sorsby are used, but T. V. 
Munson, the eminent authority on 
grapes, thinks that our Early Harvest 
would answer the purpose. So far as 
I can judge, the McDonald is a valuable 
m2. 
Ruralisms 
MISSOURI GARDEN NOTES. 
Strawberry Mulch.— The manure 
mulch for the strawberry has some 
qualities that surpass those of all other 
kinds of covering. In the first place it 
acts as a complete fertilizer and at an 
opportune time, and secondly, it is 
superior merely as a preserver of moist¬ 
ure. As the manure gradually decays 
and settles closer to the ground, it 
forms a much more impervious protec¬ 
tion against a hot sun and drying winds, 
at the same time being porous enough 
to admit rain freely. It hugs up around 
the collar of the plants, keeping the soil 
cool and soft and in prime condition 
for the feeding roots to absorb plant 
food. The result is berries 
of extra large size. On the 
other hand, there is no 
denying that the ground is 
seeded to weeds and grass 
to a degree that calls for 
arduous work in the Spring 
and increases the cost of 
preparing the bed for a sec¬ 
ond year’s crop. Balancing 
these facts pro and con, to¬ 
gether with the additional 
fact that wheat straw is 
hard to get, I have selected 
manure as the better alter¬ 
native. Such manure must 
be strawy, as usually comes 
from livery stables. With 
little or no bulky bedding, 
there is serious danger that 
it will smother the plants by 
excluding too much air, but 
mixed liberally with straw 
we throw it on at a depth 
of four or five inches, cov¬ 
ering both plants and mid¬ 
dles. Loose straw can be 
safely put on to almost any 
depth; as much as a foot 
revealing no injury. I have 
tried throwing manure in 
ricks and allowing it to de¬ 
compose during six months 
or so, but there are objec- McDONALD BLACKBERRY, 
tions to this practice. It 
must be forked over several times to 
THE RUBUVE NEW-YORKER 
T\ 
Fig. 22. 
insure uniform decay, and it loses much 
of its bulk and becomes too solid to 
cover the plants deeply. It doesn't go 
near so far and must be carefully sifted 
on the plants. To fill the middles with 
it would be expensive. 
Elaeagnus Longipes. —We have a 
specimen of this shrub about six or 
seven feet high that has borne two 
years and agreeably surprised us. The 
bush is ornamental in its leaf coloring 
and loads itself with red berries about 
half the size of a cherry. The berries 
do not grow in clusters, but separately 
on long stems and are really very good 
eating. They contain only one small 
elongated seed and their juicy tartish 
flavor is quite attractive. I should pro¬ 
nounce them a distinctly good eating 
berry, well worthy a place in every fruit 
garden or yard. Last year, with its deep 
roots, it was quite independent of the 
drought, and its berries hung on in 
good order for weeks with a wonderful 
persistence. With its heavy regular 
fruiting and piquant flavor it should 
have a commercial value. Birds are ex¬ 
ceedingly fond of the fruit. As recently 
noted in The R. N.-Y., this shrub is a 
valuable sand-binder and wind-break in 
Asia. 
McDonald Blackberry. —Here is one 
of that increasingly numerous tribe, a 
hybrid blackberry-dewberry, from which 
it appears that some of our best new 
varieties are to be recruited. The dew¬ 
berry, as a class, is sweeter and more 
luscious than the blackberry, and if this 
quality can be combined with the erect 
ca*nes of the blackberry, we should 
have something superior to either. The 
McDonald was sent to me by the Ram¬ 
sey Nurseries in Texas to test, along 
with two others, known as Haupt No. 1 
and No. 2. They were planted by them¬ 
selves, some distance from other black¬ 
berries, and all of them being pistillate 
(as I afterwards discovered), the result 
of their trial was not decisive. How¬ 
ever, the McDonald did so well even 
under those adverse conditions that it 
proved itself capable of being of great 
value. It was on rich ground and grew 
rampantly into canes eight and 10 feet 
long on a wire trellis. Its berries were 
grown profusely in dewberry fashion 
and closely resembled those of the well- 
known Lucretia. Fig. 22 will reveal 
their general appearance. The two 
Haupts were still more rampant with 
canes 12 and 15 feet long, and set white 
with a multitude of blossoms. They, 
however, failed to pollenize and in con¬ 
sequence were all small and imperfect. 
acquisition to our list of small fruits, 
ripening with the Early Harvest and 
much larger. l. r. Johnson. 
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