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THE EVOLUTION OF OUR NATIVE FRUITS 



to be able to distinguish between the two sexes, except at the 

 fruiting season. It is not unusual to find persons with a stock 

 of the young plants upon the market who are not aware that 

 there are sterile and fertile plants, and that either is worthless 

 without the other. Only last spring a case of this kind came 



Fig. 105. Spray of pistillate buffalo-berry. 



under my observation. I do not exaggerate the true condition 

 of affairs when I make the statement that 90 per cent of 

 all the buffalo -berry stock placed upon the market is gathered 

 from the native thickets, regardless of sex, by just such men. 



Such being the case, what -is to be expected in return? 

 Surely nothing more than we have denunciation by the unfor- 



