NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



One of the rarest of all the fruits which 

 have come from Mr. Burbank's hand is the 

 white blackberry, the union of a small light- 

 colored wild berry, of little if any impor- 

 tance, and a Lawton blackberry. The union 

 gave to the new plant great vigor and large 

 size to the berry, the berry, at the same 

 time, losing the dark purplish black of its 

 larger ancestor and appearing a clear, beauti- 

 ful white. The fruit is not only fair to look 

 upon, but delightful to the taste. Some idea 

 of the vastness of the work even in the pro- 

 duction of berries is shown in the fact that 

 in producing the white blackberry sixty-five 

 thousand hybrid bushes which did not come 

 up to the standard set for them were de- 

 stroyed at one time. One plant out of sixty- 

 five thousand, but the one successful plant 

 paid for all the time, the trouble, and the 

 infinite patience which had been expended. 

 He is still working upon the white black- 

 berry in order to give it still finer flavor 

 and to increase its productiveness. 



In the crossing of the various berries, no- 

 tably the blackberry and the raspberry, re- 

 markable variations in both stalk and leaf 



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