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A YOUNG COLOMBIAN BERRY BUSH IN ITS NATIVE HOME 
This remarkable giant blackberry is found only in a narrow zone at 8,000 to 10,000 
feet altitude where the clouds drifting up the Magdalena valley drop their moisture and 
keep the temperature cool and moist throughout the year. It isa region where bamboos, 
begonias, and tree ferns luxuriate and approaches more nearly in character the summer 
climate around the Puget Sound or the Golden Gate than any other in America. The 
soil on which this bush is growing resembles that of a peat-bog. Photograph by Wilson 
Popenoe at El Pefion near Sibaté, Dept. of Cundinamarca, Colombia, October, 1920. 
(Fig. 4.) 
