The White Blackberry 



How A Color Transformation 

 Was Brought About 



TO SPEAK of white blackbirds or of white 

 blackberries is to employ an obvious con- 

 tradiction of terms. Yet we all know that 

 now and again a blackbird does appear that is 

 pure white. And visitors to my experiment 

 gardens during the past twenty years can testify 

 that the white blackberry is something more than 

 an occasional product — that it is, in short, a fully 

 established and highly productive variety of fruit. 



I doubt, however, whether there is record of 

 anyone having ever seen a truly white blackberry 

 until this anomalous fruit was produced. 



Nevertheless it should be explained at the out- 

 set that the berry with the aid of which I developed 

 the new fruit was called a white blackberry. It 

 was a berry found growing wild in New Jersey, 

 and introduced as a garden novelty, with no pre- 

 tense to value as a table fruit, by Mr. T. J. Lovett. 



[Volume II — Chapter II] 



