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of the East, and was especially delicious when 

 cooked. 



It differed as widely as possible from the vile- 

 tasting fruit of one parent and from the insipid, 

 tasteless fruit of the other. 



It should be explained that there were only 

 about twenty of these hybrid plants in a large 

 colony of seedlings. The remaining members of. 

 the company were precisely similar to the mother 

 plant on which they grew this being the small, 

 downy species, Solanum villosum thus showing 

 that they were not hybrids. It is probable that 

 there was only a single fruit that had been 

 hybridized, although the foreign pollen had been 

 applied to many pistils. 



The entire company of new hybrid Solanums 

 were probably produced from the seeds of a 

 single berry, the other berries having been quite 

 unaffected by the attempt at cross-pollenizing. 



But it sufficed to have produced a score or so 

 of hybrids; I should have been delighted with a 

 single one, after all these years of waiting. 



NEW SPECIES 



Naturally two or three individuals were selec- 

 ted from among the twenty hybrids the ones 

 excelling as to profusion, size, and flavor of 

 berries. 



