A CROSS BETWEEN A RASPBERRY AND A DEWBERRY 



Tlic above is a life-size i)hotograi)hie copy of a hybrid cr(«s between Rubus 

 stri^osus (the BrilHant), a red raspberry, as father, and Rubus rubiesetus, a 

 Dewberry, as mother. The contribution is from Mr. H. Ness, in charge of 

 the division of liorticulture, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, College 

 Station, Texas, who describes the fruit as "dark red to nearly black" and the 

 flavor as mildly acid, with a strong reminder of the raspberry — very superior 

 to the blackberry. He further says: "The drupelets adhere more to the 

 core than in the rasi)berry." 



This plant comes from a second sowing of seed from the first generation, of 

 which he yjlanted 280 plants, all more or less sterile except 5, which are so 

 similar in all characters that no difTerencc can be described. This year he 

 has planted nearly 1,000 seedlings from these plants which were self-fertilized. 

 These seedlings have, in spite of the unfavorable summer, made a growth of 

 several feet, and appear at present to be as uniform and similar to each other 

 as the parents. The breeding work with the Rul)i is being done under the 

 Adams Fund of the Texas Experiment Station. (Frontispiece.) 



