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Show Dewberries Ripen. Early and Have Sweet Flavor The dewberry fruits are larger than those of the blackberry and ripen earlier. They have a very desirable flavor all their own. They are not hard to grow, but are sometimes rather fickle In their bearing, but are made more certain by having other berries of the blackberry family blooming about them, or two or more varieties of dewberries may be planted together, togeth-er, as they do not self-fertilize very weir. They like a rich clay soil, like blackberries, but will grow well on most soils. The canes are slender and long and are best kept on a flat trellis made by fastening a two-foot strip of poultry wire 18 Inches above the ground on stakes. The canes will push up through the meshes and can be left to spread over the surface of the wire and cultivation progress below. be-low. This keeps the fruit up off the ground. I |