. Horticulture; a text book for high schools and normals, including plant propagation; plant breeding; gardening; orcharding; small fruit growing; forestry; beautifying home grounds; the soils and enemies involved. the country,they are less commonly grown in gardens than raspberries. They are however grown in gardenswith more profit and shouldfind a place in more of ourhome gardens. The best soils for the black-berries are rich, black are less thrifty on lightsoils. They respond well toadditions of barnyard manureand green manure. Location.—It is well to lo-cate the blackberry patch
. Horticulture; a text book for high schools and normals, including plant propagation; plant breeding; gardening; orcharding; small fruit growing; forestry; beautifying home grounds; the soils and enemies involved. the country,they are less commonly grown in gardens than raspberries. They are however grown in gardenswith more profit and shouldfind a place in more of ourhome gardens. The best soils for the black-berries are rich, black are less thrifty on lightsoils. They respond well toadditions of barnyard manureand green manure. Location.—It is well to lo-cate the blackberry patchwhere it will not be in the wayof other garden crops. Alongone side of the garden is agood place. The berries shouldbe picked frequently duringthe ripening season and thepatch should be located whereit can be given attention atthis time. The Kinds.—The manyforms of blackberries are dif-ficult to classify. Bailey sug-gests the following groups:(1) The long clustered varie-ties are probably best canes are tall and branch-ing. The fruits are somewhatthimble shaped to ripe they are sweet and dull colored. An albino form ofthis group is white or amber colored when ripe. Taylor and. Fig. 185.—Raspberry crown gall. Thi:disease may spread in the soil to peach treesDo not set raspberries and peaches close together. (Minnesota Station.) THE KINDS 259 Ancient Briton are common varieties of this group (Fig. 186).Mersereau probably belongs to this group. Iceberg is one of thealbino varieties.
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