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Pickers at work in a field of Blackberries; also shows manner of trelLising. 
Blackberries 
There is a great and Increasing demand for blackberries. It is one of the fruits whose 
culture seems to have been neglected. Most people have depended upon the supply of wild 
ones, but the cutting off and burning over of old blackberry slashes and turning these fields 
Into the production of other crops, has reduced the wild supply and people have to depend 
on the cultivated crop or go without them. Even if there were plenty of wild ones, the 
cultivated berry, when well grown, is superior to the wild one and it is much more econom¬ 
ical and satisfactory to grow 1 a supply in your own garden than to roam over the fields in 
search of wild ones. The growing of blackberries on a large scale for market offers unusual 
opportunities for the man who will go at it in the right way. 
The culture is very similar to raspberries. They require well drained land and do best 
when confined to narrow continuous rows and 
are well mulched under the bushes. If the 
rows of canes spread in spite of your vigilance, 
the next best thing is to take a scythe or prun¬ 
ing hook and cut off the surplus canes close to 
the earth, leaving only a narrow row. Black¬ 
berries require cultivation in order to be hardy, 
and annual fertilization in order to be fruitful. 
Commercial fertilizers rich in phosphoric acid 
and potash, rather than nitrogen, are best to 
use, much safer than barn manures. 
Snyder. The standard early blackberry for 
the north country. The canes are healthy, 
hardy and very productive. It is an upright 
grower, ' stiff and abundantly able to hold up 
the enormous crop of fruit. The berries are 
medium to large in size, round in shape, very 
firm and of good quality when well ripened. 
The canes are reddish in color and extremely 
hardy. The Snyder is to blackberries what the 
Cuthbert and Plum Farmer are to raspberries 
and the Dunlap to strawberries, the most uni¬ 
versally grown. 25 for 50c; 100, $1.75; 1,000, 
$ 12 . 00 . 
Macatawba Blackberry. Great things are 
claimed for this variety which is said to be a 
cross of the Giant Himalaya Berry and the 
Eldorado blackberry. We have a fine lot of 
plants but have not fruited it yet. 25 cents 
each; dozen, $2.00; 100, $10.00. 
Watt Blackberries 
