THE RASPBERRY 253 



Most of these seedlings were quite productive, 

 but no one plant was sufficiently valuable to 

 warrant its introduction as a new variety worthy 

 of cultivation. 



Berries were gathered, however, from the most 

 promising of the dewberry-raspberry hybrids. 

 Among the second-generation seedlings thus pro- 

 duced was one that was of different caliber from 

 all the rest as shown by the character of its fruit. 



No such berries were perhaps ever seen before 

 as those that grew on this second-generation off- 

 spring of the Cuthbert raspberry and the Cali- 

 fornia dewberry. 



Some of the berries were an inch and a half 

 long and an inch in diameter. They were a dark 

 rich crimson color, slightly downy, and glossy. 

 In flavor they combined the qualities of rasp- 

 berry and blackberry, both flavors seeming to be 

 intensified. In a word, the fruit was a blend be- 

 tween the fruits of the parent races. It was a 

 new variety so markedly distinct from either 

 parent as to justify the designation of a new 

 species. 



The new berry was originally called the Hum- 

 boldt, but was subsequently rechristened the 

 Phenomenal by the purchaser. 



The new fruit was not altogether unlike the 

 loganberry, which was an accidental hybrid dis- 



