NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



plants were entirely thornless, absolutely and 

 invariably persisting in the strawberry charac- 

 teristics. They bore leaves, but instead of 

 having raspberry leaves, as would be natural 

 to go with their long stems, the leaves were 

 all trifoliate, a regular strawberry leaf. Under 

 ground, the plant sent out long branches, or 

 stolons, precisely as the strawberry plant sends 

 them out above ground. These stolons bore 

 plants, and when they came up they took on 

 the length of stem of the raspberry parent, 

 growing from three to five feet in height. 

 Flowers came in great abundance, three or 

 four times as many as the raspberry, seven or 

 eight times as many as the strawberry. But 

 the plant was foredoomed, for it bore no fruit. 

 Flowers came in abundance, indeed, lived their 

 allotted time, and dropped to the ground, but 

 the only fruit, or approach to a fruit was a 

 little knob where the fruit should have been, 

 a very travesty of a berry. Hundreds of these 

 plants were grown. 



An apple was crossed with a blackberry. 

 The plant which followed was apple so far as 

 foliage and general character were concerned, 

 although in the thickness and general charac- 



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