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ALFRED—Mammoth New Blackberry—Practically Coreless 
Highest Quality—Large Jet Black Berries—Exceedingly Productive 
These are a few characteristics of the New Alfred Blackberry. This New Variety is taking first place in the 
plantings of the best commercial growers, producing larger crops of finer fruit than Eldorado, Blower and the 
other old reliable kinds. 
For the Home Garden, Alfred is the ideal Blackberry. Think of a bush loaded with tremendously big jetty 
Blackberries from 1% to 1% inches long, 
practically free from seeds, coreless and 
with a pulp fairly bursting with juice. That’s 
Alfred. Price of heavy plants, $1.00 per doz- 
en; $1.50 per 25, postpaid; $2.50 per 100; 
$18.00 per 1000. 
The earliest to 
most productive of the early sorts. Price, 
Scarff’s Heavy Fruiting Strain Early Har- 
vest, $1.25 per 25, postpaid; $3.00 per 100; 
$12.00 per 500; $20.00 per 1000. 
; This is one of the most val- 
Eldorado uable varieties for market 
and home use. It is a strong, upright grower 
and the fruit is jet black, never coloring red 
after picking; fully as large again as the 
average Snyder berry. The flavor is excel- 
lent, imparting a rich aroma, melting and 
juicy with but little core. Highly recommend- 
ed everywhere. 
Eldorado is unquestionably one of the best 
commercial] blackberries grown. Price, $1.25 
per 25, postpaid; $2.50 per 100; $10.00 per 
500; $17.50 per 1000. 
DEWBERRIES 
. The berries are far larger 
Lucr etia and incomparably _ better 
than any blackberry and of unequalled ex- 
cellence; soft, sweet, and luscious through- 
out; of brightest glossy black color. Most 
desirable variety for Ohio conditions. Price, 
$1.00 per doz.; $2.50 per 100; $8.00 per 500; 
$15.00 per 1000. 

CULTURAL SUGGESTIONS 
Bearing Age Blackberries 
Heavy two-year-old plants can be supplied in all varieties 
at prices 50% higher than listed above for our one-year 
plants. 
BRAINERD BLACKBERRY 
A New Tremendously Heavy Yielding Blackberry for 
the Central, Southern and Pacific Coast States 
A trailing type much hardier and better in all other respects 
than the Himalaya. Brainerd is extremely productive of very 
large clusters of high quality berries when fully ripe and which 
contain relatively smaller seeds than other blackberries of this 
type. The Department of Agriculture has made numerous tests 
of this variety and because of its greater hardiness and tre- 
mendous yields of large, highly-flavored berries has deemed it 
a very worth-while variety and worthy of introduction. 

Prices— By Express Not 
BRAINERD Postpaid Prepaid 
Heavy I-yr. Each 6 12 25 100 200 1000 
plants .......... 25c $1.00 $1.75 $3.00 | $6.75 $12.00 $60.00 
Bearing age....35c 1.40 2.65 4.25 9.00 16.00 75.00 
Outstanding among the varieties of blackberries in 1938 
was the Brainerd. Its maximum yield is attributed to its 
late blooming which occurred after the May freeze. Brain- 
erd began ripening July 23rd and continued until Septem- 
ber 9th and during this period yielded at the rate of 3,672 
pints per acre. The writer believes that this late maturing 
variety would be an addition to the varieties now used in 
Indiana.—Hoosier Horticulture, Nov., 1938. 


Planting distances, pruning, and general culture same as for Red Raspberries (see page 8). 
Keep suckers thinned out to not closer than 8 to 10 inches apart to insure ample space for fruiting canes 
and which will result in finer larger berries. 
All bramble fruits profit by applications of commercial fertilizers containing plenty of Nitrogen, or 
well rotted manure in early Spring. Soils with plenty of humus are always best for Small Fruits. 
Sulphur dusts during or just prior to early spring rains prevents leaf spot and is an aid in control of 
orange rust. Remove any plants showing disease and burn them immediately. 
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