Show berries without thorns promised a d blackberries and dewberries Dew berries being tested by many scientists 1 prepared by tie the wates blate rev artro nt 0 of f Adil culture Is nd dewberries dew glew berries herries without thorns bus been awu 11 subject of u interest to plant bre breeders bleeders eders fur for a number of yen years rs doubtless those who have buve picked elther either of these brulls are anre in fit atily with hie file efforts of the to lo eliminate tile the thorns and it now looks us its it if it II were to id be done according to george at al darrow of tile the united states slates department of agriculture two thor inless varieties the cory blackberry and the austin den berry p placed laced ou oil tile in recent years have met linth fairly good success cirss these types are adapted to certain southern local files onty only recent developments one of hie file most recent developments in the production of thorn tess fruits Is tile the work of 11 1 L pollard a fruit grower of california in the of 1928 he observed sports of the lie youny young dewberry on his place lie ile tested six of these this year und mid ull all but one proved to he be worthless tile the one exception proved to be apparently as good in every way ns na the original young and all of tills this sort were tile success s of this grower in and P nd ing a productive sport ol of the young dewberry says saya air darrow calls attention to the desirability of finding sports of 4 the standard each section all sports should ile be propagated land and tested for their productiveness many advantages advantage in t tile he dewberry Is nd vant ageous not only in lowering tile the cost of training mining but what Is more important por tant also in reducing thorn injury to the hie canes themselves even greater advantages advant aKes might inight be obtained with oregon evergreen and himalaya hinek blackberries berries Invest Igal ions looking to the development of if hornless blackberries and dewberries dew berries tire are now being cou conducted ducted by the department and hy by a number of workers at state experiment stations |