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Commercial Fruit Culture 
Loganberry Shown at Left . Phenomenal Blackberry at Right 
of the trailing blackberry. The roots of 
the Logan blackberry are perennial. They 
live for many years. The canes are bien¬ 
nial. They grow one year and die after 
fruiting the following year. They take 
root at the tip like dewberries and do not 
send up suckers from the roots. In ap¬ 
pearance the fruit resembles a large black¬ 
berry in its shape, but has the color of 
the red raspberry. In order to show this 
comparison, the picture given above is 
taken from this bulletin. At the left may 
be seen the Loganberry, while the Phe¬ 
nomenal blackberry is shown at the right. 
The flavor of the Loganberry is a brisk 
acid. It becomes milder and quite pal¬ 
atable when the fruit is allowed to ripen 
fully on the vines. Along the Pacific 
Coast tin* Loganberry has now become a 
standard fruit. Great quantities are 
grown for the local market, and the sur¬ 
plus is pressed to obtain Loganberry 
juice, this having become a very large in¬ 
dustry. The culture of tin 1 Loganberry 
is much the same as that of the dewber¬ 
ries cultivated on the lower Atlantic 
Coast. On the large fruit farms the 
Loganberry vines are trained on wires 
much the same as grapes. This fruit has 
been tested in many parts of the Central 
and Eastern States, but it does not thrive, 
and. generally speaking, its planting away 
from the Pacific Coast cannot be recom¬ 
mended. It has a considerable sale as a 
small fruit in the Pacific Coast market, 
and the trade in the juice is already of 
large size and constantly increasing. This 
is a fruit peculiarly adapted to the Pa¬ 
cific Coast, and we cannot advise our 
Eastern readers to invest in it, except as 
a uovclty or small garden product. 
Lime-sulphur and Apple Scab 
My attention has recently been called 
to an article which appeared in your 
columns during the Winter in answer to 
a question from a Michigan correspondent 
who wished to know if apple scab could 
be controlled by applications of one to 
40 lime-sulphur solution, beginning with 
the “pink spray.” 
The advice given in the first two para¬ 
graphs ot the reply is excellent, but in 
the third paragraph there is a suggestion 
which to the writer seems unwise, and 
aside from the possible injury to the 
foliage and flowers, I can see little or 
no benefit from using lime-sulphur solu¬ 
tion stronger than one to 40 for the con¬ 
trol of apple scab. Although the extra 
cost of the material would be consider¬ 
able. especially if one has a large orchard 
ot full-grown trees and two applications 
are made before the petals open, this 
would be negligible if the results would 
warrant it. There is also a marked dif¬ 
ference in the application of lime-sulphur 
at the two strengths. The germination 
of the spores of the apple scab, which is 
the thing to be prevented, cannot take 
place when the leaves have been coated 
with one to 40 lime-sulphur solution, and 
for the three reasons given the use of a 
stronger solution seems unwise. How¬ 
ever, we believe in keeping the growing 
parts of the trees well coated, and do not 
think we should rely upon one “pink 
spray.” The first application should be 
made as soon as the clusters of flowers 
open so that the flowers and flower stalks, 
as well as the leaves, can be covered by 
the spray. This may be even before the 
pink color can be seen at the tips of the 
buds. Care should be taken that the 
underside of the leaves as well as the 
upper side is sprayed. A second applica¬ 
tion should be made just before the petals 
open to give protection to the flowers 
and leaves during the blossoming period. 
Farther on in the article it is stated:! 
M ith us, where this practice has been 
followed for the past five years, it has 
made later applications for the aphis 
practically unnecessary. - ' In this con¬ 
nection I recently read in an article in 
another farm journal of considerable 
prominence, a statement that aphis “eggs”! 
could not be destroyed by using one to| 
eight lime-sulphur solution, but that it 
could be done if it is used at one to four. 
I am aware that there is a general be¬ 
lief that aphis eggs can be killed by 
using a strong solution of lime-sulphur 
1 he fact is that under normal conditions 
not more than two to five per cent of the 
aphis eggs hatch, and it is not strange 
that, when one finds after spraying that 
there are numerous empty and shriveled 
aphis egg shells ami only a few aphis, 
the conclusion is reached that thev 
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The Loganberry—A Pacific Coast Fruit 
The past season we have had many 
questions about the Loganberry, and 
whether this fruit is adapted to profitable 
growing in the Eastern States. In our 
larger cities advertisements are now ap¬ 
pearing in public places picturing the 
great merit of Loganberry juice, and this 
is being sold wherever soft drinks are 
offered. The Department of Agriculture 
at Washington has issued Bulletin No. 
DOS on “The Culture of the Loganberry.” 
Those who want detailed information re¬ 
garding this fruit should send for that 
bulletin. It appears that the Logan 
blackberry was discovered in 1881 by 
Judge J. H. Logan of Santa Cruz, Cal. 
It evidently grew from a seed planted in 
Judge Logan’s garden. It was first sup- 
possed to be a hybrid seedling, between a 
red raspberry and the Crandall blackber¬ 
ry. Recent investigations, however, have 
made it appear that the Loganberry is 
not a hybrid, but really a form of trailing 
blackberry, and it is therefore regarded oh 
the Pacific Coast as a red-fruited variety 
which may result in serious losses to 
fruit growers who follow it. It reads as 
follows: “Because of the comparatively 
small difference in the cost, because of 
its perfect safety when used, and because 
of its infinitely greater value for many 
purposes, I would recommend using lime- 
sulphur, full dormant strength, for all 
applications on apples and pears, up to 
the opening of the blossoms.” While we 
would favor using lime-sulpliur solution 
at full dormant strength (meaning one 
part to seven or eight parts of water), 
for the San Jose scale while the trees 
are dormant and, provided the trees are 
infested with the scale and for any rea¬ 
son the trees have not been sprayed while 
dormant, would not hesitate to use it 
while the buds are swelling, up to the 
early cluster bud stage, some slight in¬ 
jury to the leaves and flowers would be 
done, and it might prove quite serious 
when the spraying is done just before 
the petals open, especially if the weather 
following is hot and dry.. 
W hen no scale insects are present, and 
