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Ralph E. Barker in Small Fruits (1954) writes about how to grow and train various plants. He also at times offers a paean:

Like many of us, you may associate blackberries and dewberries with your childhood. Perhaps you can remember getting your mother's consent to let you scamper off with the other kids to the wild briar patch along the creek on the promise that you'd bring home enough berries for a pie — and of coming back after sundown, your hands scratched like a tom cat's ears, your clothing in shreds, your syrup bucket pitifully empty, your face stained a deep purple, and your stomach gorgeously full!