328 LUTHER BURBANK 



popular as a home berry, since it produces fruit 

 from midsummer until late autumn. 



As its name implies, this is an evergreen, or 

 nearly evergreen plant. It is a trailing bush 

 with thick perennial canes armed with very stout 

 recurved thorns. 



This blackberry was worked upon quite ex- 

 tensively on my place in 1890 and the following 

 years, at the time when my chief experiments in 

 the hybridizing of the Rubuses were at their 

 height. Among the hybrids produced were some 

 very curious forms, the variation in the shape of 

 the leaves being especially remarkable. Some 

 of the leaves resembled those of the grape, others 

 were much dissected, like the leaves of a wild 

 carrot. 



The most promising of the hybrids were pro- 

 duced from a cross between the Evergreen and 

 the popular Lawton blackberry. Some selected 

 seedlings from this cross, in the second genera- 

 tion, were rampant growers, thorny, with curi- 

 ous, handsome, palmate leaves, and delicate pink 

 blossoms. The berries ripened late in the fall. 

 Some were rather large and possessed a su- 

 perior aromatic sweet quality not found in the 

 common summer varieties. 



One of these promising hybrids was men- 

 tioned in my "New Creations" in 1893. It was 



