Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-09-03

The unexampled high prices which black |
berries have commanded, this season, should |
stimulate farmers and fruit growers to in
crease their production; not only for their
own profit, hut for the good of the commu-
nifty. The heathful influence Of this fruit
is well nown and appreciated, and it should
he produced in such quantities as to be with
In the reach Of all classes Of the community.
They can be grown profitable at ten cents
per quart Sixty bushels Of corn per acre,
1920 quarts, is considered a good crop.
Yet 1000 quarts of Lawton blackberries can
he grown on an acre, a. easily as GO bushels
uf corn The corn will be worth sixty dol
lars, and the berries two hundred dollars at
ten cents per quart. The latter will cort no
mare, after the roots are planted, than the
corn, while The demand at that price is al
most unlimited.
The failure Of the peach and apple crops,
and The partial destruction Of the blackberry
vines, 10y our past severe winters, is partly
the cause Of the present high price OF this
fruit. We are liable 10 these failures, every
i rar. Peaches are at hest uncertain, anti
lie failure Of the apples, has become almost
chronic complaint, on the Atlantic COST
Blackberries, cultivated. are the only fruit
We can depend upon with reasonable de-
sr.' II certainty to fill the Vacancy. 1t is
si-ni we cannot depend on the wild fruit
work of hot dry weather, near the time of
rip-niug, destroys them,as was the case this
summer.
We say, then. TO every man who owns
hand, plant "patch" Of blackberries, and
cultivate them as you do your corn. You
will find it much more pleasanter and profit
able than tramping over your own or your
neighbors' fields, after few half ripe and
knotty apologies for fruit, growing on me-
! elected clearings and in dirty fence corners.
If you prefer the wild fruit, owing to the
uncultiyated condition of your taste, plant
it and cultivate it, and your fruit and your
|, taste willimproye together. You may posi-
bly,, by this course, hit on something that
will be able to stand the increasing severity
Of our winters. But If you have not time
or INCLINATION to experiment, you can pur-
e chase at a low figure afew hundred or thous
9 and Lawtons, which will give you a fruit,
a when fully ripe, as delicious and as healthful
as humanity deserves.
But they are not entirely hardy, and will
: be liable to winter kill in exposed situations
n and under high cultivation.
e To remedy this, select a sheltered locality
{ plant them 6 feet by 8, when it suits to worl
! them both ways, or the rows feet apart
- . and the plants four feet in the row. Keel
them clean with the pillow and cultivator un
i. iil they blossom, but do not work then
" after the crop is gathered. Plant potatoe
IT. or other truck the first year, and if wei
I'd MANFRED then, and on good ground, the
en- will be the better without more for sewers
In years.
10 As to shelter, we have an acre planted i
'iu an apple orchard of twelve years standing
~ which gives fair crop the present season
All and half an acre which is not under shelf,
in that will not yield five quarts. The VIM
ow in the latter are winter killed These patch
de- have had the same treatment, shelter e
the ccpted.
icc The Kittatinny, and Wilson, are rcportt
ha more hardy than the Lawton, but that is y
- to be tested AT any rate the roots cor
W. mand speculative prices, and you can gro
ear several crops of Lawton's, before you c,
list obtain the others ut prices that will warra
ted planting largely.
are The Lawton spreads on the ground Il
his first year, somewhat like the dewberry. III
* second year it goes right up. Stop it wht
about four feet high, by pinching off the t,
In shoots. II will then throw out numero
all side branches several feet in length. The
nm should be trimmed back 10 about half thu
nm. length, in July, and the result will be stool
ind plants well branchcd, which require
nv stalking or tying, but are able to stand alo
nd and bear n full crop of fruit.
lilo MILL CREEK, August "a.