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species, the seedlings not reverting to either 

 parent form. The new berry has also been used 

 as seed parent in a number of crosses with other 

 blackberries and raspberries, and some thousands 

 of seedlings thus produced are now under ob- 

 servation. 



Among these hybrids great variations will, of 

 course, occur, and while nearly all will undoubt- 

 edly be of inferior quality, I have confidently ex- 

 pected to find at least one that surpasses even 

 the Phenomenal; and now this expectation has 

 been fully realized in a new very sweet variety 

 which will later be introduced. 



OTHER PERFECTLY BALANCED HYBRIDS 



Hybridizing experiments of almost equal in- 

 terest, even if not quite so striking in results, 

 have been made between the various raspberries 

 and the Lawton blackberry. 



The Lawton is a very prepotent parent in 

 these crosses, and its characteristics will almost 

 invariably be found to predominate. Even the 

 pollen of the Lawton when applied to the rasp- 

 berry more often produces the Lawton type of 

 berry than any other type. But in exceptional 

 instances I have produced Lawton hybrids in 

 which the prepotency was not so strongly 

 manifested. 



