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The case of some of the New Zealand apples, 

 which were confused as to time of bearing for 

 two or three years after being imported, will be 

 recalled. 



Also in the case of the winter rhubarb, 

 which came to be a perpetual bearer partly 

 perhaps through the influence of such trans- 

 plantation. 



The new hybrid strawberry, which combines 

 ancestral strains from the two hemispheres, fur- 

 nishes another illustration of the tendency to 

 retain ancestral habits as to time of fruiting, 

 and thus, where parents from both hemi- 

 spheres are involved, to develop among some 

 of their seedlings a new habit of perpetual 

 bearing. 



It will probably be possible, by further selec- 

 tion from the new race of all-the-summer- 

 bearing strawberries, to extend their time of 

 fruiting, as was done with the winter rhubarb, 

 until they bear throughout the year in any 

 climate where the winters are sufficiently mild 



NEW VARIETIES IN THE MAKING 



Other novelties that have developed among 

 the progeny of the company of widely hybrid- 

 ized strawberries include constant producers 

 and enormous producers that as yet lack 



