Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-04-30
" SUCCESS WIFE SMALL FRUITS"

Formerly the blackberry was re-
garded as merely q bramble in this
country. 1t is still quite generally so
regarded. Whom man gets to think
ing it is not bramble, all he has to
do is TO 80 waltz around in "a healthy
patch, with nothing on him but a cot
ton shirt and q pair Of tow trousers,
and he will come out restored to the
faith of his fathers. The greatest enc.
my the blackberry has is boys. Five
boys, from town, can eat more green
blackberries in q day than would
ripea in q week. For many years the
great desiderstum has been hardy
berry that could resist the premature
onslaught Of boys from town. It is q
great disideratum still. The Schneider,
= variety that was invented by an Iowa
horticultural, is the nearest approach
to it. It is bred from q perfectly
green persimmon, crossed with dog
wood tree, anG still further propagated
with hybrid of NORWOOD bush and
Wild crab apple. 1t is not a perfect de-
Tense, but there are very few boys who
care to eat more than quart of them.
Nobody else, however, can 60 past the
field where the Schneider is growing,
without being attacked by Asiatic
cholera, and this tends to weaken the
partial success this hardy berry has
achieved. Then there is bug-I do
not know the name of it-that crawls
over the berries now and then. When
you eat berry that has been glorifed
by visit from this bug, you lie down
in the briars and pray heaven to take
you homo in just about three seconds.
And if you live. you can wake up in
the night, along in the middle Of next
winter, and shudder as you taste the
old taste of that berry.
When your blsckberries grow too
thickly, you will want to thin them
ont. 70 this end you must kill some
Of them. This can be done by digging
q we'll where the plant stands then
turn the farm upside down and let it
dry out thoroughly for q couple OF
years, then turn it over, upside down,
and start q brickyard on the back Of it.
This will kill Oft sons of the plants.
There may be- some shorter and cheaper
method of killing blackberry vines than
this, but never heard Of it, and it isn't
likely that there is any.
If you want to devote about forty
acres of ground to the cultivation OF
blackberries. plant about three healthy
vines in some corner Of the field, about
the middle of April. Then about the
first of May, tho man who owns the
farm on the other side Of the road, will
bring civil action against you, and try
to collect damages, for destruction OF
his two fields Of wheat by raid OF
blackberry vines.
1t is not known just at what season
of the year blackberries ripsn. The
blackberry has never been known to
ripeu. If the hucksters and boys should
all die in June, it is probable that the
berries would ripen some time in July
or August. But they have never had =
chance to see what they could do at
ripening.
The blackberry is so named, because
it Is blue, in order to distinguish II
from the bluebsrry, which Is black.
The difference between country and
city boys was never better described
than by Boston nine year-old young
ster returning from a visit 10 his coun-
try cousin yesterday. Said he:" George
can skate. bat he cant tell time, AID
can tell time ba, | cant skate. - Bos'
toa Journal
Art must anchor in nature, or il
is the sport o! every breath OF folly
HAzLITT.