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| Keywords: Lovett's illustrated catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees and plants for the autumn of 1891 (16814586968).jpg Culture � Many kinds of blackberries will succeed not only on good fruit land but even on the most <br> sandy porous soil They require the same treatment as recommended for raspberries but In fleld culture <br> should be planted in rows five to seven feet apart according to tlie strength of the variety and three feet <br> distant in the rows; in garden culture plant rows five feet apart and plant three feet distant in the rows <br> The pruning should be governed by the growth of cane and should be severe Pinch back the canes in sum- <br> mer when three feat high causing them to throw out laterals While we exercise every care in digging <br> and assorting ordinary plants known as Suckers putting in none without side roots yet we desire to im- <br> press upon the minds of planters the superior value of plants grown from pieces of roots termed Root Cut- <br> ting Plants which having to depend on their own roots for support make much better and more numerous <br> laterals and fibrous ones Root-cutting plants are so vastly superior and the difference in cost is so slight <br> that fruit growers who have once planted them will not use suckers at any price when others can be had <br> NEW VARIETIES <br> If to he sent hy mail add 10 cents per dozen; 50 cents per 100 <br> As the old reliables have of recent years proved so unreliable the Kittatinny Lawton etc being so <br> generally effected by orange rust and the Wilson by double or rose blossom we have for quite a long <br> time been In search of a blackberry to fill the place made vacant by their failures and also sufficiently hardy <br> as to endure severe weather without injury After testing a score or more varieties all of which were <br> claimed by their originators to possess the desired properties we are happy to be able to announce the ad- <br> vent of Lovett's Best which we have full confidence will prove a success throughout America wherever a <br> blackberry of any kind can be made to grow Like the Kittatinny and the Wilson it is a chance seedling of <br> New Jersey origin and after watching it for several years and fruiting it two seasons we are convinced <br> that as a general purpose berry it will fill the entire bill Its strong points are enormous yield great <br> hardiness of cane and freedom from disease we have had it growing by the side of and surrounding plants <br> badly affected with orange rust and it has never taken the disease nor been attacked by any other malady <br> Its other merits are earliness in ripening large size uniform size and shape jet black color never turning <br> red after gathered fine appearance and exquisite quality Its season of ripening is second early giving its <br> first picking with the second picking of the Wilson and in advance of Kittatinny Lawton etc <br> It has been subjected to a field test by the originator and some of his neighbors by the side of Wilson <br> and other popular sorts for the past six years surpassing in yield and profit by far all others each and ev- <br> ery season It has been exposed to a temperature of several degrees below zero and has never had even its <br> terminal buds injured in the least <br> All things considered it is the best variety upon our grounds and approaches more closely the ideal <br> blackberry than any other we have seen <br> Price root-cutting plants eacli 50c; doz 5 00; lOO 35 00 <br> 16 42764468 136632 68527 Page 16 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/42764468 1891 10 5962/bhl title 68527 Henry G Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection ; J T Lovett Company ; J T Lovett Company Biodiversity Heritage Library Lovett's illustrated catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees and plants for the autumn of 1891 Catalogs Commercial catalogs Fruit J T Lovett Company Little Silver New Jersey Plants Ornamental Seeds Trees U S Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library bhl page 42764468 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/42764468 bhlGardenStories Blackberry j t lovett company little silver new jersey plants ornamental u s department of agriculture national agricultural library bhlgardenstories Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2015-04-01 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/16814586968 2015-08-23 22 03 06 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 Lovett's illustrated catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees and plants for the autumn of 1891 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script Blackberries | ||||
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