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sprang, was made without particular difficulty, 

 I had learned by this time that blackberries and 

 raspberries and dewberries could be hybridized 

 almost indiscriminately; and the fact that one of 

 the parents in the present combination had grown 

 originally in Siberia and the other in California 

 offered no barrier to the union. 



With the first lot of seedlings, five hundred or 

 more, from this union of the California dewberry 

 and the Siberian raspberry, some strange speci- 

 mens were revealed. 



Nearly all were worthless plants, some of 

 which seemed hardly to have vitality enough to 

 live, much less to produce fruit. Others bore 

 small, unattractive berries, insignificant in every 

 respect. Three or four individuals, however, 

 grew with unusual vigor. They differed so 

 widely from the others that I was at first in- 

 clined to suspect that they were dewberries un- 

 hybridized. As to this, however, the result 

 proved that I was in error. 



One of these exceptional vines was partic- 

 ularly notable. It neither trailed nor stood up- 

 right, but took an intermediate position. The 

 leaves were not palmate like those of the rasp- 

 berry, nor were they like the foliage of the 

 dewberry. They were a compromise between 

 the two. 



