— Hedrick — 
@ Big, Sparkling Black Berries, 
Without Core, That Just Melt in 
Your Mouth. 
@ Highest Quality and Deliciously 
Sweet When Dead Ripe. 
@ Plants Hardy, Vigorous, and Pro- 
ductive. 
Hedrick is one of the varieties resulting from 
the intensive fruit breeding program at Gen- 
eva, N. Y. Berries are large, moderately firm, 
without core and of good quality which is 
pleasantly subacid when dead ripe. Hedrick is 
a midseason variety, with canes hardy, vigor- 
ous and productive. 
New Heavy Fruiting 
Variety from Canada 
Fine Large Glossy Black Berries 
so Highly Desired for Pies, 
Wines, Freezing and other 
Culinary Uses 
Lowden—For Finer Blackberries 
Description: The fruits are large, glossy black 
with no tendency to sun scald, firm, and of 
good quality, having a sweet, rich flavor and 
absence of hard core when fully ripe. The 
canes are hardy, upright, but not tall, and 
highly productive. Mr. Lowden claims that on 
one 2-year-old cane 1146 berries were counted. 
Blackberry Sterility 
During recent years most Blackberry Photo 
plantings have been subject to sterile fruit Courtesy 
clusters. Conflicting theories have been N.Y. Agr 
advanced as the cause. The New York Experiment 
Agricultural Experiment Station indicates Station 
that the failure of blackberry fruits to de- 
velop normally may be eliminated by 
spraying the plants a few days before 
bloom with DDT at the rate of two pounds 
of actual DDT to 100 gallons of water. 
BLACKBERRY- DEWBERRY PRICES 
12 50 100 
.$2.50 $4.25 $ 7.00 $12.00 
\ Brainerd Blackberry 3.00 4.75 7.85 13.95 
\New Hedrick Blackberry . 3.65 6.75 12.85 19.75 
New Lowden plockberty . 3.25 5.75 10.50 18.50 
Above prices of heavy, 1-yr. ee Kae Bearing Age 
Plants, 50% higher. 
