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Himalaya Varieties. —Another dis- 
tinet family is promising still further to 
revolutionize blackberry culture. The 
parent of this family is the Himalaya, of 
which again there are several species 
extend a distance of at least 30 feet. It 
seems imperative to train the vines on a 
wire trellis like the grape. A friend in 
Texas describes two vines that he saw 
growing in a deep sand. Their stems 
TIIE DAT.I.AS BLACKBERRY. 
B UNDY’S BLACKBERRY—With the 
McDonald as a first early, there is 
a wealth of second earlies that carry us 
on to the main varieties. These are 
the Sorsby and Dallas, from Texas, and 
the King, Maxwell and Bundy. The last 
is an early Harvest seedling that origi¬ 
nated in the county west of here, and has 
never been offered for sale. It is the 
most rampant grower I ever saw of the 
true blackberries. The canes will grow 
straight up far above your head and in 
excessive numbers that must be thinned 
out. Last year it bore enormously of 
berries that averaged a third larger than 
those of the Harvest, and were of con¬ 
siderably better quality. If further tests 
confirm its value, it will be introduced. 
I have found one case of rust among it, 
and I suspect it will show about the 
same degree of resistance as the Harvest. 
The merits of the other kinds mentioned 
I have touched upon. The King is thorny 
and dwarfish in growth, but will yield 
large crops of berries that are big and 
sweet and will sell as dewberries. It is 
undeniably early, and can always be de¬ 
pended on to come in just about a week 
after the Harvest. The Sorsby in habit 
of growth strongly resembled the Mc¬ 
Donald, but the berries are a grade 
smaller and of the blackberry rather 
than dewberry type. It is a heavy bearer 
and a good pollenizer for the McDonald, 
making a fine running mate for that va¬ 
riety. 
The Dallas, which is a standard in 
Texas, shows no dewberry blood in cane 
or berry, but ripens only a trifle later 
than Sorsby, judging from only one sea¬ 
son. Its berries are larger, round, glossy 
Black and luscious when fully ripe. The 
Maxwell I have dwelt upon before. A 
quality of the utmost value in all these 
second earlies, with the possible excepl- 
tion of Bundy, is their exemption from 
the rust. Although we have had a 
temperature here of 14 degrees below 
zero the McDonald and Sorsby are still 
holding most of their leaves, some still 
green and succulent. This is a remarka¬ 
ble quality. The Himalaya also holds 
its leaves, but they are dark and faded. 
distinguished partly by round and cut 
leaves. The chief characteristic of the 
Himalaya family, which differentiates it 
from all others, is its gigantic growth of 
canes, which necessitate a distinct order 
of culture. On my ground canes at base 
are two inches in diameter, and the vines 
were three inches in diameter and run¬ 
ners had extended 50 feet. Their owner, 
for whom he does not vouch, claimed to 
have picked 30 gallons from the two 
vines. Other peculiarities of the Hima¬ 
laya are its very late blooming period, 
after all other kinds, but its berries 
ripen with main crop sorts; next its 
evergreen habit. Its canes root from tin- 
tip very readily. The round leaved spe¬ 
cies is the kind to plant; the cut-leaved 
is not hardy here. The weakness of the 
Himalaya lies in its small nubbiny ber¬ 
ries, though reports come from here and 
there that berries are good size. Last 
year, for the first time out of three, a 
good proportion of the berries on my 
vines were large enough for market. 
They are very acid and only palatable 
when dead ripe. 
Black Diamond.—Now comes a new 
representative of this family, a seedling 
originated (in what manner I do not 
know) by a fruit grower of Cologne, N. 
J., that is free from the habit of nubbiny 
berries and carries with it the charac¬ 
teristic of unusual growth and capacity 
to produce heavy yields. It is peculiar 
in ripening its fruit very late. It be¬ 
longs to the cilt-leaf species, and young 
plants are indistinguishable from the cut- 
leaf Himalaya. It bears a medium-sized 
berry, good quality, good color and quite 
firm. Unfortunately it has a confusing 
number of aliases. The best authenticated 
name seems to be Black Diamond, though 
there is a raspberry of the same name. 
It is also listed as the Star, Wonder and 
Ewing’s Wonder. 
N ANTICOKE. —There is still another 
new introduction of very distinct charac¬ 
ter, not resembling the Himalaya family 
except in very late flowering and per¬ 
haps in unusual vigor of growth. This 
is the Nanticoke, introduced by W. F. 
Allen of Maryland. It ripens through¬ 
out August, has a good-sized berry of 
excellent quality, but too soft for ship¬ 
ment, according to report. My young 
vines are quite thorny, vigorous iu growth 
and flowered on until in June, when we 
were picking the early sorts. Obviously 
its blossoms will never be caught by the 
frost. They hore only a few berries, and 
owing to the drought, as I thought, they 
never fully developed so their full size 
and quality could be judged of. 
L. R. JOHNSON. 
Cape Girardeau Co., Mo. 
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