

€ VERBEARING 
Tree BiacnseRRY 

This unusual blackberry blooms here after May 10th and escapes frosts. 
Berries start to ripening about June 20th and continue through July and 
August. The originator gave us the following information: 
“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 feet.” 
“The fruits are round, good size, sweet, yet enough acid for jams and 
jellies. Excellent keeper, has 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 percent of the fruit 
on our vines grows on limbs extending above the thorns. 
“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 gallons, or 24 pounds. Three-year plants have broken all 
records 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 x 12 feet, without 
any fertilizer.’’ 
“We now have some 3825 five-year-old plants from which we sold their 
entire crop this year at $1.00 to $1.35 per gallon, there being no other ber- 
ries on the market when they ripen. Fine commercial possibilities.’’ 
“They have shown no sign of disease. People in towns and cities may 
grow all the berries they can use from six plants in the yard or small 
garden.” 
Ready-to-bear 2-year plants 
that should bear some the 
first summer. 
Not 
Prepaid 


Postpaid 
$2.75 
5.00 


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