INEDIBLE FRUITS WHICH MAY 

 BE TRANSFORMED 



EVEN THE ACRID BARBERRY Is CHANGING 



WE have had occasion more than once 

 to call attention to the extraordinary 

 importance of the Rose family in its 

 relations with man, and in particular to the won- 

 derful value of the great genus Rubus. 



The family gives us an astonishing proportion 

 of our cultivated fruits and berries, in addition 

 to a great variety of our most beautiful flowers. 

 The apple, peach, plum, cherry, quince, pear, 

 loquat, and apricot, among orchard fruits, and 

 the blackberry, raspberry, dewberry, salmon- 

 berry, cloudberry, and strawberry, among small 

 fruits, are all representatives of the same 

 tribe. 



Any plant that has membership in the family 

 must be regarded as having good possibilities of 

 development. 



It was perhaps largely a matter of chance that 

 the fruits we have mentioned came under man's 



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