The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-03-23

double that Of the old way. It's fruit
is more luscious and plantation viii
fruit heavily under good culture and
pruning from fifteen to twenty years,
giving annually large crops. The de-
mand for this fruit is practically un-
limited. The trouble is blackberries az
offered are sour, ssedy. and lack flavor.
Scarcely a town in the country is sup
piled at all with large luscious black
berries.
How it is Done.-Pursue the same
method explained IN breeding up
strawberries. Find an the ideal canes
bearing the finest fruit and not over
two years Old. Early in the fall dig
them up and cut roots In pieces about
three inches long and pack in boxes
Of clean. coarse. sharp sand and place
in a cold cellar regulated with ice so
the Thermometer viii stand at 80 de-
grees. An ordinary cellar viii not 40,
for if allowed to get too warm the
cuttings Will commence to grow and all
be spoiled. If allowed TO freeze they
viii not callus and thus fail to emit
sufficient roots.
What is a Callus?- Is a law Of ma
ture that when a root is cut or injured
Ine plant will repair the damage by
sending out new roots. but no new
roots will start until a callus is formed.
Certain wood cells and a gristle-like
substance must form, and out Of this
callus the roots start The process re-
quires time and goes on at low tenn
perature and the longer the root Is
kept IN this dormant condition the
more ealluses there will be-
Roots prepared in October form cal
luses in great numbers before plant
ing time the following May. when the
cuttings are placed in nursery rows in
rich, moist, sandy soil about three
inches apart and one and a half deep.
It is quite difficult to make them grow
properly without irrigation. II the
roots get dry they will fail. II buried
too deep they damp on and die. Low,
spTingy or cold ground viii not do.
They must have frequent cultivation
and not a weed allowed to grow among
them. AS scon as dormant in the fan,
the plants are carefully taken up and
roots trimmed to the proper length
and again packed In coarse, sharp sand
SO II is solid around every root and
kept as In the first winter, when cal
luses form all along the sides and ends
Of roots so that when planted out
where they are TO fruit in the spring
myriads Of roots wiz start at one time
and at the end Of the season the ground
win be full Of fine feeding roots as
above described. In keeping them in
the callusing cellar It should be sup
piled with ice. for il perchance the eel
lar gets TOO warm the plants will grew
and be lost.
The common way is, as in the case
Of raspberries. to let a patch fruit as
long as it will and then NOW OIL the
I tops and let suckers come up from be-
I tween the rows and the next season
to dig them up to start a new patch
/ OF course the weakness and exhaustion
Of the old patch is carried into th'
new. The roots on the plant are few
and commence growing always from
the end. and I have seen them exten'
several rods away, while near th'
canes the ground would not be occu
pied at ALL The sap having to come
through these long roots to the leaves
for assimilation they are conunuousl.
sending up suckers which become 1
nuisance.