Cultivated Blackberries
Writing from Worksop, Notts., Mr. A. Middleton remarks, 'Your fruitless journey in search of blackberries is a great contrast to my experience this year and as I live in north Nottinghamshire—more northerly than where you live—presumably colder. I suggest you try growing blackberries on the boundary of the garden. This is where I have mine and I have been gathering the berries from early in August to the present time—at the peak period 6 or 7 lb. per week. They are the parsley leaf or American type, Himalayan Giant and a cross between a loganberry and a Himalayan—a very large and heavy cropper and early to pick. I am enclosing three different types of leaves from this bramble. One has three leaflets (as logans), one has five leaflets (as Himalayans) and one that could not make up its mind to be three or five (joined leaflets), a clear proof of the cross, and all grown on the same bramble.' I like the idea of having blackberries close at hand. I may be wrong about the taste of all culti- vated blackberries, but I think the wild berry takes a lot of beating and the same applies to raspberries. The wild ones always seem to have a subtle flavour, although, of course, they arc invariably much smaller in size.
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