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OLALLIE BLACKBERRY 
A cross of Young X Black Logan 
(See our 1950-51 Catalog —- page 9) 
OLALLIE is an early berry, starting to ripen a week or two 
earlier than Boysen. And it is a highly productive variety. 
Paul Pletz of Anaheim reports a yield at the rate of over 12 
tons per acre from his OLALLIES set in Feb. 1950, and this was 
a poor year for caneberries. He is confident that he can get a 
yield of 15 yons from them. This compares with an average yield 
of about 3 tons per acre from Boysens in southern California as 
reported in a bulletin of the State Agricultural College. A 
leading cannery reports that they know of but two growers in 
the Cucamonga-Fontana area who got a yield of more than 5 tons: 
per acre from Boysens. 
Lloyd P. Sharp, Farm Advisor in Riverside Co., writes us: “I 
ran some small field tests here in this county, and...I found 
that the OLALLIE produced just twice as many pounds per plant 
as the BOYSENBERRY. The OLALLIE definitely seems to be resist- 
ant to verticillium which is certainly one thing in its favor.” 
Mr. Pletz has found OLALLIE fully resistant to verticillium, 
to which Boysenberry is subject, and he says that 18s one reason 
Dr. Wilhelm of the California Agricultural Experiment Station 
likes it, and is using it in his cross-breeding work. 
Mr. Pletz has found OLALLIE responds well to“hedge pruning” 
and with this method of training he sets his plants 4 feet 
apart in the row, which takes about 1500 plants per acre. 
At 12 tons of OLALLIES per acre, and the freezer pricethis 
year of 13¢ to 15¢ per pound, they would gross over $3000 per 
acre. Mr. Pletz retailed and wholesaled his at 4$1.75 per 
tray, which was more than Boysens brought. 
It is a very easy berry to pick, the fruit laterals standing 
out so the.«berries are easy to get at and they come off the 
stems very easily. This, in conjunction with the “hedge prun- 
ing’’ system, makes the berries much less expensive to harvest 
than some varieties. 
OLALLIE is a much firmer berry than BOYSEN, which makes it a 
better keeper and shipper, and in processing it holds its shape 
better. This past summer we brought a tray of them home with us 
from Anaheim. After we picked them up we drove to Laguna Beach, 
later returning home via Covina, where we visited friends. When 
we reached home I set the berries on the sink shelf in the kit- 
chen, where they remained for two days, then were placed in the 
refrigerator. The last basket of berries was used 8 days after 
we got them, and they were still firm and in perfect condition. 
A large cannery which made a test canning of Olallie has_ 
made a very favorable report, and told Mr. Pletz that they want 
all he has next year. In sampling a can of them and a can of 
BOYSENS at the cannery we noticed a definite difference in the 
taste of the two. OLALLIE seemed to have a more definite fla- 
vor, not just sweet as the BOYSEN seemed. 
PRICES: 5, $4; 10, $7.50; 25, $15; 50, $25; 100j»'$405~-1000,.-$350" 
