THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



Fig. 2348. 



Iceberg, the New White 

 Blackberry. 



in the natural structure of fruits, or in the 

 case of the stoneless prunes, in which the 

 kernel is fully developed but naked, having- 

 no hard substance between it and the pulp. 

 Changes in the seasons of ripening and the 

 production of varieties which show remarka- 

 ble precocity of fruit bearing have also been 

 brought about, as for example a chestnut 

 which was in fruit at eighteen months from 

 from the sowing of the seed, the seedlings 

 of which seem to possess similar precocity. 



The new White Blackberry, the so-called 

 paradox of the fruit world, which our As- 

 sociation distributed to its members this 

 spring, is another example of the results of 

 Mr. Burbank's success. Of this we give 

 Mr. Burbank's own description, and hope 

 soon to have its verification in all parts of 

 our province. 



"Owing to the somewhat unsatisfactory 

 qualities of white blackberries so far 

 known, the impression may have been en- 

 tertained by some that no white blackberry 



could be as productive and hardy, with 

 berries as early, abundant, large, handsome 

 and delicious, as the best black ones. 



"The well-known Lawton is when ripened, 

 unsurpassed, and very generally known as 

 the most productive market berry. Owing 

 to its fixity of race, it will reproduce itself 

 from seed almost exactly, and its seedlings 

 will not be influenced, when raised from 

 seed pollinated by other varieties, but it 

 steadily imparts its good qualities when em- 

 ployed as the staminate parent. One of the 

 great grandparents of ' Iceberg' was Law- 

 ton. The first generation of seedlings when 

 crossed with Crystal White, was all black ; 

 the second also, though varying much in 

 other respects; but the third produced this 

 wonderful plant bearing the snowiest white 

 berries ever seen. 



"Very little attention was paid to the 

 long rows of cross-bred descendants, until 

 one day this berry was discovered, among 

 its black relatives, with the canes bending 

 in various directions with their load of de- 

 licious, snowy berries, which are net only 

 white but so transparent that the seeds, 

 which are unusually small, may be seen in 

 the berries when ripe. 



"Clusters, larger than those of Lawton ; 



Fk;. 2349. Shasta Daisy. 



