
EVERBEARING TREE BLACKBERRY °* Soe"6Ne’pranri 
HISTORY OF THE TREE EVERBEARING BLACKBERRY 
As Given by the Propagator of this New Berry 
"This new berry came into our possession as a seed- 
ling some eight years ago. 
The first year’s growth is inclined to droop to the 
ground; second and third year they put out two to six 
tree-like canes that attain a height of four to six and a 
half feet, with bushes from five to nine feet across the 
top of the tree-like bush. 
“Due to the nature of their growth and the long period 
of ripening of the berry, we have named it TREE EVER- 
BEARING BLACKBERRY. It seems to grow in any soil 
or climate and has stood 30 below zero without any 
injury. 


SIX GALLONS OF BERRIES FROM ONE PLANT 
"We have trial plantings in almost every state. All are 
thriving and doing well. 
“With us, this berry has never bloomed earlier than 
May 10th. Berries start ripening June 20th and continue 
through August. The fruits are round, good, size, sweet, 
yet enough acid for jams and jellies. Excellent keeper, has 
a rubber-like skin but not tough, making it a wonderful 
shipper. Plants are very thorny, but berries grow on a long 
fruit stem in clusters of seven to thirty berries. Ninety per- 
cent of the fruit on our vines grows on limbs extending 
above the thorns. 
"Another feature that people like is that the fruit is 
borne up off the ground and ninety-five per cent is free 
from dirt, regardless of weather. 
“From a two-year old plant we have gathered three gal- 
lons, or 24 pounds. Three-year plants have broken all re- 
cords with a yield of 6 gallons, or 48 pounds of fruit from 
one plant, or at the rate of more than 7% tons per acre, 
planted 12 by 12 feet, without any fertilizer. 
“We now have some 325 five-year-old plants from which 
we sold their entire crop this year at $1.00 to $1.83 per 
gallon, there being no berries on the market when they 
ripen. It seems to have unlimited possibilities as a com- 
mercial berry. 
They have shown no sign of disease that other berries 
have, or of weakening after bearing over a period of 
years. Instead, they get larger and more thrifty. 
The undreamed of feature of this berry is that people in 
our towns and cities who have been deprived of fresh 
fruits may now grow all the berries they can use for pies, 
jams and jellies from six plants in the yard or small gar- 
den, taking no more care of them than a common shrub. 
TWO-YEAR-OLD 3 plants Postpaid, $2.75 
PLANTS 6 plants Postpaid, $5.00 
100 plants Postpaid, $50.00 
This new berry makes a beautiful shrub, may be used as 
an individual plant or as a hedge. Fits in well with any 
landscaping. 

Propagated Only By 
A. E. BOOTHE & SON 
WEATHERFORD, TEXAS 
