THE SUNBERRY 303 



The seeds of these plants were carefully saved, 

 and next season there grew from them a crop of 

 plants precisely like the parents. The progeny 

 of the hybrids followed their parents more 

 closely than the unhybridized offspring of 

 either of the Solanums used in the original 

 cross usually do. 



As already noted, all species of wild Solanums 

 tend to vary, but the new species reproduced 

 itself exactly, except that a very slight differ- 

 ence in the flavor of trie berries was barely 

 perceptible. 



As two crops of these plants could be raised 

 in a season, they were multiplied rapidly, and 

 there was astonishingly little variation in the 

 size, quality, or growth of the bushes. Without 

 exception the plants resembled the original hy- 

 brid, and differed radically from either parent of 

 that hybrid. 



It was obvious, therefore, that a new and 

 fixed species of Solanum had been evolved 

 through the hybridizing experiment. As the 

 reader already knows, the new plant was 

 christened the Sunberry. 



The unwarranted change of the name from 

 Sunberry, the only name I ever authorized or 

 approved for the plant, to "Wonderberry," and 

 the misstatements that have gained currency re- 



