Anyone heard of the Doyle blackberry? Sounds like the
Danish BIG, but I believe is also thornless?
Nancy
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Doyle Thornless isn't unusally big, but it's THORNLESS, VIGOROUS, AND
PRODUCTIVE (yield per plant is something like 2-3 bushels). Contact
"Severtson Farm"
until you remember that one plant of Doyle is equal to ten of most others.
-Lon Rombough
Grapes, unusual fruits, writing, more, at http://www.hevanet.com/lonrom
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"Lon J. Rombough" wrote:
> Doyle Thornless isn't unusally big, but it's THORNLESS, VIGOROUS, AND
> PRODUCTIVE (yield per plant is something like 2-3 bushels).
Hi, Lon. Do you know how this blackberry tastes? Years ago we bought
some Black Satin thornless, vigorous and productive blackberries but the
taste is only sweet when you leave the berries to lose their shine (as
in just past prime). Not too good for fresh eating but still good for
jam. I have been looking for some other thornless varieties but in our
nurseries they just say thornless blackberry and do not give the variety
any more!.................Joan
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joanr@mindlink.net
lower Fraser Valley, B.C.
http://mygarden.cjb.net
> Anyone heard of the Doyle blackberry? Sounds like the
> Danish BIG, but I believe is also thornless?
> Nancy
Nancy I still have the Danish blackberry book and it isn't in there (all the names are Latin, of course).
My huge blackberry (still pushing up new flower stalks!) is Rubus armeniacus. Huge berries, huge thorns.
I wrote to one of the authors since they didn't mention SIZE in this botanical book;; I also sent him the middle part of both leaf and flower bramble and a flower stalk.
Two days later I received a very long and extremely illegible letter showing me how to use the book, going through each step in turn and ending at R. armeniacus, which also is the most common Danish blackberry, though apparently not also so large.
Now I will have to type his letter laboriously on the computer so I can read it all at once, in order to thank him.
Carol
