284 Nebraska State Horticultural Society. 



7. The present writer's efforts in this line at the South Dakota 

 experiment station began ten years ago and are just beginning to 

 show good results. From many parts of the Dakotas, Minnesota, 

 Manitoba and Assiniboia, the native raspberries have been gathered; 

 and many thousands of seedlings raised under high cultivation, both 

 purebred and hybrids with other raspberries from three continents. 

 Not all of these have fruited but of those that have fruited a goodly 

 number have been selected as worthy of propagation. One especially 

 is promising at this writing, the "Sunbeam," appearing as the lone 

 survivor to cheer us when the outlook was dark for hardy raspberries. 

 It is the first of our thousands of raspberry seedlings to be named, and 

 is a hybrid of Shaffer's Colossal with a wild red raspberry from Cav- 

 alier county. North Dakota, near the Manitoba line. The plant is 

 vigorous, productive, purple-caned, but sprouts freely; foliage dis- 

 tinct; fruit on style of Shaffer's, but smaller, worthy of trial at the 

 north where raspberries winterkill, as it has endured 41 degrees be- 

 low zero without protection. 



8. The essential demand of a seedling raspberry or of any other 

 of the quarter of a million fruit seedlings raised at this station is that 

 it must endure the winters unprotected without injury (this means 

 at times 4 degrees F. ) with the ground bare, and be productive of 

 fruit of fair size and quality, 



9. It is my constant endeavor to breed a cosmopolitan race, not 

 merely one adapted to a narrow range. This cross-breeding of many 

 races may produce this. 



10. If 20,000 seedlings will produce this desired plant, well and 

 good. If 200,000 seedlings are necessary, it will be .the writer's best 

 endeavor to raise that number. The history of horticulture shows 

 that in large numbers lies rapid progress. And time-saving in an im- 

 portant factor in this rapid age. From the, ashes of millions of seed- 

 lings will arise, Phoenix-like, the new creations which will dominate 

 our future prairi? pomology. 



