﻿Multiplication 
  of 
  Extremes 
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  berry 
  hybrids 
  were 
  produced 
  and 
  grown 
  

   until 
  the 
  fruit 
  matured. 
  Then 
  from 
  the 
  whole 
  

   lot 
  a 
  single 
  variety 
  was 
  chosen 
  as 
  the 
  best. 
  

   It 
  is 
  now 
  known 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  i 
  i 
  Paradox. 
  ' 
  

   All 
  others 
  were 
  uprooted 
  with 
  their 
  crop 
  of 
  

   ripening 
  berries, 
  heaped 
  up 
  into 
  a 
  pile 
  twelve 
  

   feet 
  wide, 
  fourteen 
  feet 
  high 
  and 
  twenty-two 
  

   feet 
  long, 
  and 
  burned. 
  Nothing 
  remained 
  of 
  

   that 
  expensive 
  and 
  lengthy 
  experiment, 
  except 
  

   the 
  one 
  parent-plant 
  of 
  the 
  new 
  variety. 
  Sim- 
  

   ilar 
  selections 
  and 
  similar 
  amount 
  of 
  work 
  have 
  

   produced 
  the 
  famous 
  plums, 
  the 
  brambles 
  and 
  

   the 
  blackberries, 
  the 
  Shasta 
  daisy, 
  the 
  peach- 
  

   almond, 
  the 
  improved 
  blueberries, 
  the 
  hybrid 
  

   lilies, 
  and 
  the 
  many 
  other 
  valuable 
  fruits 
  and 
  

   garden-flowers 
  that 
  have 
  made 
  the 
  fame 
  of 
  Bur- 
  

   bank 
  and 
  the 
  glory 
  of 
  horticultural 
  California. 
  

  

  