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Pacific coast. This sometimes makes a large, 

 rambling, treelike bush, and the singularity in 

 question consists in the fact that some of the 

 bushes bear berries of a brilliant yellow color and 

 others reddish purple or almost black berries. 



The bushes intermingle almost indiscrim- 

 inately, yet there is no intermingling of the dif- 

 ferent berries on the same bush. Each plant 

 bears exclusively berries of one color or the 

 other. 



I have experimented extensively in the im- 

 provement of the berries of the different elders 

 and these experiments are still under way. 



These experiments began with the planting of 

 seeds of the Mexican elder, which bore berries of 

 medium or small size and of black color. Some 

 of the plants that grew from these seeds pro- 

 duced, much to my surprise, berries yellowish 

 white in color. 



Observing this tendency to variation, it at 

 once occurred that improvements might be made 

 in almost any direction with a plant that showed 

 this tendency. More seedlings were raised, 

 and selection was made according to my usual 

 method. 



From the best of these seedlings many plants 

 were produced that bore berries of a yellowish 

 white or sometimes grayish color. While the 



