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W. F. ALLEN'S PLANT AND SEED CATALOGUE. 
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A FINE FIELD OF DEWBERRIES. 
The Dewberry is constantly growing in favor and is 
today next to the Strawberry the most popular of all 
the small fruits. The vines trail on the ground like a 
sweet potato vine. In size and quality it is the equal of 
any blackberry and greatly exceeds them in productive¬ 
ness. The plant is perfectly hardy and commences 
ripening its fruit immediately after late strawberries. 
Lucretia Dewberries. 
Indeed by planting the latest varieties of strawberries 
and earliest dewberries there need not be a single day’s 
gap between the two. The dewberry is sweet and lus¬ 
cious with few seeds and no hard core. The fruit has 
become very popular in all markets where known and 
more and more are being grown every year and nearly 
always marketed at paying prices. If let trail on the 
ground they should be well mulched to keep the im¬ 
mense load of fruit from being spoiled by falling on the 
ground. The best way, however, is to stake them as 
shown in our illustration. This illustration is a true 
copy of a photograph made from two hills of one year 
old dewberries tied to a stake three and one-half feet 
high. The photograph was taken after the sixth pick- 
ing’and I could have found hundreds of hills equally as 
good. Our plan of cultivation is to plant in rows each 
way two and one-half feet one way by 
five feet the other, making about 3.500 
plants per acre. Cultivate both ways till 
plants get long and troublesome, and then 
cultivate only the wide way and turn vines 
to keep the cultivator from tearing them 
off; or, better yet, use sweeps on your cul¬ 
tivators such as offered in my spring cata¬ 
logue. These will run under the vines and 
weed up the grass without disturbing 
them. Leave vines lay on the ground till 
all danger of winter killing is over, and 
then early in spring before buds put out, 
stakes should be driven between each al¬ 
ternate hill the two and one-half foot way. 
The stakes should be two and one-half or 
three feet above the ground and one hill 
from each way tied to the top of the stake 
(see illustration). Or where timber for 
stake's is scarce they can be used at longer 
intervals by using wire to lay the vines 
over, same as grapes 1 use binder twine 
for tying to stakes. When grown as above directed the 
plot or field in bloom is prettier than you can imagine, 
and when fruit comes it is the wonder, admiration and 
delight of all who see it. 
LUCRETIA. —The standard dewberry, earlier than 
the earliest blackberry and as large as the largest of 
them. The canes are of great hardiness and exceedingly 
prolific, thriving everywhere: of slender trailing habit, 
and entirely free from disease and insect attacks. The 
fruit is superb, large and handsome, jet black, rich and 
