Blackberry

a fruit-bearing bramble. The blackberry and the raspberry are nearly akin. The fruit of each is composed of a mass of drupelets, each containing a seed. The raspberry may be pulled off, leaving a dry receptacle or core. The blackberry core is juicy and forms part of the fruit. Blackberry preserves, jam, and jelly, wine and blackberry cordial, an old-fashioned family remedy, are not unknown on the housekeeper's shelves. Our blackberries are native Americans. The blackberry is comparatively unknown in Europe. It has reached its prominence in the United States during the past half century. Among hints given by growers are a well drained soil, protection from drouth, avoidance of over-rich soil which produces cane rather than fruit, and cutting out the old canes as soon as they have borne fruit. If the old canes be burned promptly, most of the blackberry's insect enemies are destroyed. In a cold climate blackberries must be covered in the winter season. The leading nine states in blackberry growing are as follows; the yield is in quarts for the year in which the twelfth United States census was taken:

See Raspberry; Burbank