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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 FĂŚ using a script Blackberries | ||||
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