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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 * ^ 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. 



