. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. NowâBoysenberry Without Thorns (Continued from Page 11) comings of the Boysenberry has been its thorns, which slow up the work of trellising the bearing canes and makes necessary the wearing of heavy, leather gloves when handling the vines. At last this obstacle has been overcome and we are now able to grow the Boysenberry as completely free from thorns as we have in the past grown the other thornless berries, Youngberry, Loganberry, Dewberry and Blackberry. This also makes the picking of the ber- ries pleasanter, faster and less e
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. NowâBoysenberry Without Thorns (Continued from Page 11) comings of the Boysenberry has been its thorns, which slow up the work of trellising the bearing canes and makes necessary the wearing of heavy, leather gloves when handling the vines. At last this obstacle has been overcome and we are now able to grow the Boysenberry as completely free from thorns as we have in the past grown the other thornless berries, Youngberry, Loganberry, Dewberry and Blackberry. This also makes the picking of the ber- ries pleasanter, faster and less expensive. Origin Some new varieties of berries and other fruits have been origin- ated as the result of years of arduous, painstaking work, gradu- ally eliminating the undesirable features, as the case with the Bauer Thornless Loganberry, which required many years of patient work to produce. This Thornless Boysenberry, however, started all by itself from two thornless "sports" or shoots grow- ing out of ordinary thorny Boysen- berries among a small lot of plants in a home garden planting in El Monte, California, from which city it has taken its name. No other berries had been growing in this planting, so it is certain that these original thornless plants came from the regular thorny Boysen- berry plants from which the shoots were found, and which are still growing as normal thorny Boysen- berries in the same row. Spreading the Crop Owing to the extreme earliness of the crop of the El Monte Thornless Boysenberry, it makes a good companion for other berries bearing later in the season, as the Nectarberry, which bears very heavily of fully as large if not larger berries, all through the mid- season and continues on blooming more while the ripe fruit is being picked. These buds and blossoms borne along with the green, red and almost plant ripe berries, furnish abundance of fruit long after most other berries are gone, and the prices have again climbed to high levels. Sbi
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