320 LUTHER BURBANK 



with a stepladder or more commonly from the 

 back of a horse. 



The berries themselves are large and soft, al- 

 most falling to pieces in the picking. They are 

 unusually juicy, and with almost no acidity. 



There are two strongly marked varieties of 

 Salmonberry. One has pale yellow fruit, the 

 other reddish, varying to dark crimson. These 

 two varieties may be seen growing side by side, 

 in some instances without intermingling, each 

 individual bush producing berries of one distinct 

 quality and color. 



The Salmonberry requires a damp, cool at- 

 mosphere and moist soil. When transplanted 

 into the warm valleys it does not thrive. There 

 chances to be a moist piece of sandy land on my 

 Sebastopol farm, however, where it thrives fairly 

 well. Here we have grown the Salmonberries 

 from Alaska, Washington, Oregon, northern 

 Minnesota, and various parts of northern and 

 central California for more than twenty years. 



Among these I have noticed considerable vari- 

 ation in the size and color of both fruit and flow- 

 ers. My experiments, however, have not been 

 carried out extensively, partly because of the diffi- 

 culty that attends the growing of the Salmon- 

 berry in this locality and partly on account of 

 the lack of firmness and flavor in the fruit. But 



