Narrative
This sort has several notable virtues which made it for many years a standard blackberry. It is still much prized for home and local markets in most of the blackberry regions of eastern America. The qualities which commend it are great hardiness and great immunity from the orange-rust which seldom attacks it. The fruits are large, handsome in appearance, and exceptionally high in quality. Eldorado is usually considered the first main crop variety to ripen. This variety originated about 1880 as a chance seedling near the village of Eldorado, Ohio. In 1899 the variety was added to the fruit list of the American Pomological Society. Plants tall, vigorous, upright-spreading, hardy, productive, healthy, seldom attacked by orange-rust; canes obtusely furrowed, glossy, greenish red becoming dark red at maturity, glabrous, with small, almost sessile glands; prickles long, slender, numerous, reddish at the base; leaflets usually 5, oval, dull, somewhat smooth, pubescent, with serrate margins; petiole reddish, slender, nearly glabrous, with few small glands. Flowers self-fertile, early, in loose, leafy clusters; petals white, oblong; pedicels long, slender, glandular. Fruit early midseason, ripening period long; large, roundish to slightly elongated, jet black; drupelets large, round, few; core soft; flesh juicy, firm, sweet, rich, pleasantly flavored; quality good to very good.
named for Eldorado, Ohio
NAMED FOR= Eldorado, Ohio