A New Fruit—The Lowberry.
Hybridists are often producing -new flowers, fresh variations in foliage, and improved habits of plants; but their labours in connection with fruits are not rewarded so bounteously, and the process usually takes longer to obtain results. The lowberry is a cross between the loganberry and the blackberry. Tn appearance it mig?Tt be described as a gigantic blackberry, measuring IJin long, let black in colour when ripe, and the
fruit is very juicy. Although the raspberry is one of the parents of this new fruit, the habit of the plant is more akin to the blackberry, for the long canes run from 12ft to 18ft in one season. The lowberry should be planted with plenty of room to allow for this abundant growth, and may lie trained on trellises in the same way as the raspberry, and it also makes an excellent plant for training over arches.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 6, 10 February 1909, Page 39
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150A New Fruit—The Lowberry. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 6, 10 February 1909, Page 39
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