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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGHST. 
[ October, 
THE LAWTON AMERICAN BLACKBERRY. 
5f (y OR the last two years I have grown great crops of this excellent variety of 
OjJr Blackberry, and find it to make a capital preserve, when mixed with a 
few Apples to take off the sweetness. Wet seasons like the present seem 
to suit it best, for the bushes are loaded with fruit of a far larger and 
firmer consistence in flesh, and of a better flavour, than the common English 
Blackberry. I believe there are many varieties of American Blackberries, but the 
Lawton is the only one I have yet cultivated. I grow the plants of it in rows, 
like Raspberries, selecting two or three of the 'strongest shoots made in the 
summer, and after cutting away the fruiting-canes when they have done bearing 
in the autumn, the young shoots are tied up to stakes placed in a slanting 
position, like Raspberry-stakes. The stakes, however, must be longer than for 
Raspberries, for this Blackberry is a very strong, rampant grower, like many of 
the English sorts, and the more room it has the larger will be the crop. The soil it 
does well on here is very strong, with a clay subsoil, but I should think any soil 
would suit the plants, if they were well watered in dry summers during the 
flowering time. There being a great paucity of fruit this year for the black¬ 
birds and thrushes, I expected they would have commenced their raids upon this 
Blackberry a-s soon as it was ripe, but they seem to let it alone, and confine their 
attention to the rows of autumn-fruiting Raspberries growing in the same quarter 
of the Kitchen-garden. 
The first year I fruited this Blackberry I saved some of the fruit for seed; 
and having raised some young plants, I have distributed and planted them in 
some of the hedge-rows and plantations about, so that they will very likely mul¬ 
tiply and replenish the Blackberry-pickers’ baskets with their fruit. The Lawton 
Blackberry is very distinct in its foliage from ours, its leaves being more laciniated, 
and of a deeper green colour, and keeping nearly so all through the winter.— 
William Tillery, Welbeck. 
FLOWER-GARDEN MANAGEMENT.—OCTOBER. 
d o NTIL a night’s frost makes all desolate, no pains should be spared to keep 
everything in the best possible order. The frequent heavy rains have 
made sad work with flowers, and destroyed to a great extent the show of 
bloom for this season. Attend to the timely removal of decaying flowers and 
leaves, to the trimming and regulating of the straggling growths, and to the sweep¬ 
ing and rolling of the walks. Look carefully over the stock of cuttings, to see 
that a sufficiency of each kind has been put in ; and lose no time in getting in 
cuttings of anything of which the stock appears short. Cuttings of Calceolarias 
root with great certainty in a cold frame at this season. Any plants intended to. 
be saved during the winter should be lifted and potted before they are injured by 
the frost; and if they can have a little bottom-heat for a few weeks until they 
make fresh roots, they will keep better through the winter. Lift Dahlia roots 
before they get injured by the frost, and dry and store away. As soon as the 
