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Everbearing Blackberry DESOTO 

No. 232 
Ripe Fruit for 4 Months—Often Bears Same 
Year Planted—Sold Only By 
Bradley Brothers 
DeSoto big thrifty robust plants begin bearing 
huge, delicious berries in July and continue until 
winter. 
Berries enormous in size, often measuring more 
than 2 inches long. Glistening jet-black in color. 
Finest spicy flavor. Honey sweet. Has but few small 
seeds. No core. 
Money Back Guarantee 
Why wait two years for blackberries? 
Our big ready-to-bear DeSoto plants often bear 
in only a few weeks after planted and continue all 
summer and fall. 
The big robust plants grow like weeds, will thrive 
in any kind of soil and bear enormous crops in most 
sections of the nation. Once planted will last a life- 
time. 
We guarantee the DeSoto blackberry to grow and 
bear big crops of fruit, and to be free of rust or 
other blackberry diseases. When you buy DeSoto black- 
berry plants, you get big crops of fruit. 
DeSoto plants will give you a fine supply of huge, de- 
licious berries, every day for about four months out of 
each year. The big robust plants are so thrifty they will 
not be affected by either hot, dry or wet weather. Illus- 
trated on Inside Front Cover. 
Several years ago a customer of DeSoto, Illinois, told 
us of blackberries growing in his and his neighbor’s gar- 
dens which were yielding a supply of huge delicious ber- 
ries for about four months every year. Upon investi- 
gation we bought the plants and began a series of tests. 
DeSoto exceeded our “‘Rosiest Expectations.”’ It not only 
bore all Summer and Fall, but the berries were much 
larger and more highly flavored than those produced on 
' the original plants which had been growing in the same 
location for more than 15 years, during which time they 
received practically no cultivation. Despite the neglect, 
the fifteen year old plants were literally loaded with huge, 
delicious berries throughout the entire Summer and Fall. 
DeSoto has never been attacked by either insect pests or 
disease. You can plant a few DeSoto plants in your back 
yard or along your garden fence and can serve the huge 
delicious berries to your friends for more than four 
months each year. Remember this year Health Giving 
Delicious Fruit is most important. Be sure to plant some 
DeSoto Blackberries. Order them early so you can plant 
early and have berries this Summer. Extra Large Ready 
to Bear DeSoto Plants. Each 60c; 3 for $1.48; 6 for $2.00; 
12 for $3.98; 25 for $7.00; 26 or more 25c each. 


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TEXAS FARM EDITOR 
visited Mr. T. S. Ehlert’s 
farm while Mr. Ehlert was 
picking Blackberries from 
DeSoto Vines which he se- 
cured from us. Below is a 
photographic copy of a let- 
ter from the Farm Editor. 
Also the photographs of a 
Single DeSoto Vine. 

PATTISON, July 22.—(Sp)—PICKING BLACKBERRIES 
IN THE SUMMER is a regular business for Theo. S. Ehlert of 
Pattison. With this new blackberry, the DeSoto, Mr. Ehlert 
will have berries for market until way up in September. This 
vine is four years old and the farmer has to have a stepladder 
to pick the berries from the top. Buds, blooms, green berries 
and ripe berries are on this vine right now.. 
—Photo by Post Farm Editor. 

PART OF THE ARTICLE WRITTEN BY MR. DAVID J. 
MORRIS, FARM AND RANCH EDITOR OF THE HOUSTON 
POST: 
Houston Post, Sunday, July 23, 1944, by David J. Morris, 
Farm-Ranch Editor. While visiting Mr. T. S. Ehlert’s farm we 
had the pleasure of picking Blackberries from Vines that will 
continue to bear Blackberries until September. In fact, with the 
coming on of Dewberries in the spring, followed by the Native 
Blackberry and then these special new berries Mr. Ehlert has, 
he can pick berries six months out of each year. 
Mr. Ehlert stated, ‘This new berry I have is called DE SOTO, 
an everbearing blackberry. It was discovered by Bradley Broth- 
ers Nursery of Carbondale, Illinois, and from them I got ten 
vines. 
So far I have found them immune to disease and insects 
in this area, and right now I have ripe berries, green berries, 
blooms and bloom buds all on the same vine. Thus far I have 
picked 162 pounds of berries from these vines, and I am picking 
about two pounds of berries a day now.” 

DeSoto Is Another Great 
Bradley Achievement 

