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success, chiefly because the plants bloom at 

 widely different seasons. 



Up to the present, therefore, the improvement 

 has all been due to selection and to crossing 

 within the species. After many years of selec- 

 tion my stock of E. longipes has finally been 

 reduced to a single plant, a large bush bearing 

 most abundantly each season. The fruits are 

 large and of very good quality. Indeed, the 

 improvement has been so marked that it is not 

 unlikely that this variety, when it has been more 

 fully tested, will be introduced. It has certain 

 attractive qualities that seem to make it worthy 

 of a place in the fruit garden. 



The best varieties of the American Elceagnus, 

 especially the buffalo berry and the silverberry, 

 are well worthy of cultivation, and extremely 

 promising for work, being enormous bearers of 

 pleasant-flavored, currantlike fruit, which in the 

 wild state is often collected for making jellies, 

 and is far better in quality than the Goumi berry 

 of Japan, although very much smaller. 



The best of all these species bear fruit in 

 astounding quantities. The crossing of the best 

 varieties of the American and the Asiatic Elceag- 

 nus gives as good promise of important results 

 as any fruits that I can mention. 



