26_W. F. ALLEN, SALISBURY, MARYLAND 
Mercereau Blackberries are large, sweet, and without hard core 
ICEBERG. Berries white to 
cream in color and translucent 
enough to see the seed. The fruit 
is of good quality and, when 
served with black ones for des¬ 
sert, it makes a very unique and 
attractive dish. The plants are 
upright in growth, free from rust, 
bear early and quite profusely. 
It is not recommended commer¬ 
cially. (See illustration, p. 25.) 
JOY. Originated in Atlantic 
County, New Jersey, by Jacob 
Miehl, whose place I visited the 
past summer in order to see this 
new variety in fruit. I found it 
making a vigorous growth and 
exceedingly productive of large, 
luscious berries that apparently 
were firm enough to make a good 
market variety. I was so well 
impressed with what I saw of it 
on the originator's grounds that 
I immediately made arrange¬ 
ments with the introducer to 
offer it in my catalogue this 
SG u ^ n °t fruited it on my own grounds, I will quote the description from the introducer, 
which is as follows: “The canes are of a stalky, vigorous habit, so stout and strong that it needs no stak- 
mg; it has an abundance of large foliage and yields very heavily every year, when all the canes and all 
the branches on every cane are loaded with fruit. The canes are of iron-clad hardiness, never to my knowl¬ 
edge having been injured by cold; in the winter of 1911-12 every Blackberry on my trial - grounds was 
damaged except the Joy; it came through with every bud and terminal; its canes have never been affected, 
even a little bit, by orange rust or fungous diseases, and I believe it to be immune to them. The berries 
are large and rich, almost as thick through as they are long, and are coal-black, with a rich, luscious flavor 
unsurpassed. It ripens in midseason, and I believe it is destined to become a very popular variety. 
MERCEREAU. Fruit is exceptionally sweet, luscious, almost without core and unsurpassed in color. 
The plant is a very strong grower, of upright habit and 
is strongly resistant to disease. My stock of this large, 
early Blackberry is exceptionally fine. The fruit ripens 
with Snyder, being a little later than Early Harvest 
and a little earlier than most other varieties. It has 
never been known to winter-kill, as it originated in 
northwestern New York, where it has been grown and 
appreciated for years. 
NANTICOKE. The berries are about the size of 
Eldorado, very sweet and juicy. It is tender enough 
to make it an unsurpassed table berry. For short 
shipments also it is a very desirable variety, for, 
although it has all the qualities that make it a valu¬ 
able table berry, it is not firm enough to withstand 
long hauls. The season in the latitude of Washington 
is about August 1 to September 1 or later, when 
practically nothing else is on the market. This makes 
The Joy Blackberry is a new variety of great merit 
