CMHobbs & Sons . rket sort. Eldorado. Vine is vigorous and hardy: ber-ries are very large, black, borne in clusters:ripen well together; sweet, melting and pleas-ing to the taste. Mersereau. Large, oval, sparkling black,sweet, rich and melting, hardy and productive. Snyder. The hardiest blackberry known:fruit medium sized and of a good quality; astandard market variety. Dewberries The Dewberry is a dwarf and trailing formof the Blackberry. The fruit is highly prizedas a market fruit owing to its large size andfine quality. Set the plants two feet apart inthe row and cover in winter with coarse
CMHobbs & Sons . rket sort. Eldorado. Vine is vigorous and hardy: ber-ries are very large, black, borne in clusters:ripen well together; sweet, melting and pleas-ing to the taste. Mersereau. Large, oval, sparkling black,sweet, rich and melting, hardy and productive. Snyder. The hardiest blackberry known:fruit medium sized and of a good quality; astandard market variety. Dewberries The Dewberry is a dwarf and trailing formof the Blackberry. The fruit is highly prizedas a market fruit owing to its large size andfine quality. Set the plants two feet apart inthe row and cover in winter with coarse be mulched in the spring to keep themoff the ground. Lucretia. Perfectly hardy and remarkablyproductive; said to be the best of this class offruit; ripens early; is often one and one-halfinches long by one inch in diameter, sweet,luscious and melting; this variety is recom-mended most highly. Over Forty Years 5n One Location—Bridgeport, Indiana. Why? 62 C. M. HOBBS & SONS, BRIDGEPORT. INDIANA. Senator Dunlap. Strawberries Strawberries are easily placed in the frontrank among- small fruits, and owing to the widerange in which they can be grown, there is al-ways a good market for several weeks of theyear. No fruit lends itself so readily to thevaried uses of the table or for canning purposesor preserving. They can be successfully grownin any good garden soil. For field culture oneshould make rows three and one-half feet apartand set plants eighteen inches apart in the in this manner it requires 8,300 plants toset one acre of ground. Keep in rows and culti-vate. A new bed should be planted every twoor three years. In the early winter, when theground is frozen, cover the whole with long-straw, which should be partially removed fromthe row in the spring, but enough allowed toremain on the ground as mulch to keep the ber-ries clean the following summer. The varietiesthat we list are all standard and the with imperfect flowers must beplanted
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