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strangely from the traditions of the trailing 

 parent. 



Obviously the influence of the raspberry 

 parent had at last made itself potent. 



Some of the plants were yellowish, indicating 

 that the berries would probably be yellow; others 

 were reddish. There were no blossoms the first 

 season, but the ensuing year clusters of blossoms 

 of great size were put forth, some of the bunches 

 being twelve inches in breadth far larger than 

 those usually seen on the raspberry. In a single 

 cluster there were sometimes several hundred 

 flowers. The individual blossoms were gener- 

 ally larger than the flowers of the raspberry, 

 but slightly smaller than those of the straw- 

 berry. 



In the center of each blossom was a miniature 

 berry, which might be said to resemble either a 

 strawberry or a raspberry, being so small that 

 its exact characteristics could hardly be dis- 

 tinguished. 



I was quite sure I had a valuable cross, and 

 that at least one might be found among the many 

 that would produce fruit. But in this I was 

 disappointed; not a plant produced a single 

 seed. The miniature fruit remained unchanged 

 in size until it finally dropped from the bush in 

 the fall. 



