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W. F. Allen’s Plant and Seed Catalogue, Salisbury, Md. 
DEWBERRIES. 
The Dewberry i s 
•constantly growing in 
fqvor 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 quali¬ 
ty It is the equal of any 
blackberry and greatly 
exceeds them in pro¬ 
ductiveness. The plant 
is perfectly hardy and 
commences ripening its 
fruit immediately after 
late straw berries. In¬ 
deed, by planting the 
latest varieties of 
strawberries and ear¬ 
liest dewberries, there 
need not be a single 
day’s gap between the 
two. The dewberry is 
sweet and luscious with 
few seeds and no hard 
core. The fruit has be¬ 
come 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 immense 
load of fruit from be¬ 
ing 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 
Lucretias in full bear¬ 
ing tied to a stake. 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. 
Cultivaie both ways 
till plants get long and 
troublesome, and then 
Two hills Of Dewberries Tied To A Stake. 
cultivate only the wida way and turn vine3 to keep the culti- tween each alternate hill the two and one-half foot way. The 
tor from tearing them off; or, better yet, use sweeps on your stakes should be two and one-half or three feet above the 
cultivator. These will run under the vines and weed up the ground and one hill from each way tied to the top of the 
grass without disturbing them. Leave vines lay on the stake (see illustration). Or where timber for stakes is 
ground till all danger of winter killing is over, and then early scarce they can he used at longer intervals by using wire to lay 
in the spring before buds put out, stakes should bo driven be- th e vines over, same as grapes. I 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 en¬ 
tirely free from disease and insect attacks. The fruit is 
superb, large and handsome, jet black, rich and melting, 
and ships and keeps well. I grow the Lucretia largely for 
market, having had as many as fifty acres in fruit at one 
time. 
PREHO.— This remarkable dewberry is a sport from the 
grand old Lucretia. The great profitableness of the Lu¬ 
cretia with many growers has been because it was the 
earliest of the blackberry family to ripen. Now we have 
Premo, still earlier and larger; that means extra money in 
the market and an earlier taste of delicious dewberries for 
the family. Premo has imperfect flowers, and so in plant¬ 
ing, every third or fourth row should be of Lucretia; or, 
better yet, where one is equally fond of both varieties, they 
can be planted in alternate rows. Remember that Premo 
is a delicious, great blackberry, that begins to ripen when 
the raspberry season is half over. (See illustration, p. 23.) 
AUS TIN’S IflPROVED.—(Mayes.) —An early dewberry 
of excellent quality and large yield, but the berries lack 
firmness for long shipment; hence valuable chiefly for 
home use and local markets. Berries large, short and 
thick, canes vigorous, hardy and productive; ripens fully 
a week earlier than Lurctia, and for this reason is valu¬ 
able to grow in connection with that variety. I have 
shipped many thousands of quarts of this variety to Phila¬ 
delphia, 125 miles, and New York, over 200 miles, and received good prices, 
having marketed over half of the crop before olher varieties are in the way. 
I always plant about °ne-third of my field in this vnriety. It is very hardy 
and never fails to give .a full crop. I have a fine stock of all tke varieties. 
