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... matters pertaining to the campaign just ended. Those interested in fruit culture will find in it an interesting paper on •'Blackberries, before the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, which met recently in this city, and published exclusively in Tau MAIL ...
... CCLTIVAIION. After the second year the plough and spade should not be used in the blackberry plantation, for to disturb the roots is to lessen the thrift of the vines, and also to cause an undue tendency to produce tankers, which absorb the strength of ...
... there are white blackberries, red blackberries, purple blackberries, and black blackberries. Nature, however, as if jealous of such intrusions upon the consistency of her dominions, has given the ,pre-eminenoe to the black blackberry. An ...
... trees in gat dens plant r..p. balms under them. The partial shade seems to be god for the raspberries, and helps the trees. Blackberries would, no doubt, do well in the same situation ; and strawberries, it is well known, do not do badly, grown in this way ...
... undrained soil must also be avoided, or the canes will be the more subject to be wiater-killed. The soil beet adapted to the blackberry is a light randy loam ; but any soil upoii which Indian corn gummed', if not too wet, will be gullible. In its peparation ...
... quite as fertile. INSIELT The insect enemies of the blackberry are very haw, sail will offcr little or no hindrance to it. suocesslul cultivation. Mr. Saunders, in his essay- on the raipberry, blackberry, and strawberry in 1870, speaks of a green worm covered ...
... generally about the same sue as the lawn. They have a row of currant and goosebery bush. s, and, perhaps, • few raspberries and blackberries around next the fence, and sometimes • few cherry or plum trees, with perhaps a quince bush or two. The interior is laid ...
... are jet black, and the balance are reddish-white. Tl:ey have an aromat.c or tuba:id taste, and are used for dessert as blackberries or raspberries are used. 'l•he Mennonites use the trues an ornamental hedge•tree; and it stands pruning and shearing remarkably ...