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SOLALLIE BLACKBERRY 
A Cross of Young X Black Logan 
Has Outyielded Boysenberry 2% to 1 
From a 2-year old planting of Olallies, Paul Pletz of Ana- 
heim harvested a crop last summer at the rate of over 15 tons 
per acre. Tests reported in the California Farmer this year, 
by the Farm Advisor’s office in Riverside, showed Olallie out- 
yielded Boysen 24 to 1. Mr. Al Holland, Farm Advisor in Orange 
County, can tell you about Mr. Pletz’s crop. 
Olallie is early, ripening ten days to two weeks earlier 
than Boysen, and has been found to be resistant to verticillium 
wilt and sunscald, to which Boysen is subject. Olallie is easy 
to pick, the fruit spurs standing out so that the berries are 
easy to get at and they come off the stems easily. 
Olallies are delicious as a fresh berry and have been found 
to be very desirable for freezing and for canning, and they 
make delicious pies, cobblers, jam and jelly. 
Olallie is firmer and a better keeper and shipper than Boy- 
Sen, and in processing holds its shape better, and the pro- 
cessed berry has a more definite flavor. 
A large cannery in Santa Ana which has tested Olallies for 
canning, is ready to set up to can Olallies in glass jars with 
special lithograph labels, as soon as they can be assured of 
as many as 30 tons for a run. 
We picked up a fresh-picked tray of Olallies at Paul Pletz’s 
place in Anaheim one morning and drove around with them al] day 
in the summer sun. When we reached home I set the tray on the 
sink shelf in the kitchen, where they remained for two days, 
then were placed in the refrigerator. The last basket. was used 
8 days after we got them, and they were still firm and in per- 
fect condition. 
Olallie was developed at the Agricultural Experiment Station 
at Corvallis, Oregon, by Dr. George F. Waldo, and was origin- 
ally given the number 609, before being named and introduced. 
The Station, in their bulletin introducing it, recommended it 
for trial in western Oregon and al] parts of California. They 
stated that “limited tests in Washington indicate that it is 
not hardy in northern Washington.” 
PRICES OF PLANTS: 5, $3; 10, $5; 25, $10 — postpaid. 50, 
$15; 100, $25; 500, $110; 1000, $200; 5000, $925 — F.O.B. 
Anaheim, (Calif 2" Cala fornia customers add sales tax. 
Plants guaranteed through dormant period - January and February. 
Plants ready in January 
