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an attorney, planted some Sunberries and pulled 

 them up because they looked like nightshade. I 

 completely converted him by sending him a pie." 



In conclusion, the writer goes to the heart of 

 the matter when he says: "I think much of this 

 criticism was originally due to some very unfair 

 articles that got copied and were thus spread 

 somewhat generally. As far as I can judge, 

 the original article was written out of pure 

 malice. I can account for it in no other 

 way." 



These quotations will perhaps serve suffi- 

 ciently to suggest the quality of the Sunberry, 

 and to suggest also the animus of the criticism 

 that has been directed against it. It seemed 

 necessary to advert to this aspect of the matter 

 because a fair proportion of the people who have 

 heard of the "Wonderberry" at all have heard 

 only words of condemnation. 



Moreover a large proportion of the people 

 who think they have seen or grown this fruit 

 have in reality never seen it. 



Whoever supposes that the true "Wonder- 

 berry," or Sunberry as I shall always call it, is 

 identical with the ordinary nightshade is labor- 

 ing under an illusion that might readily be dis- 

 pelled by inspection of the respective plants 

 themselves. 



