316 LUTHER BURBANK 



It required but a glance at the pictures of the 

 new hybrid prunes and plums, blackberries and 

 raspberries, roses and gladioli, nicotianas and to- 

 matoes, to convince the skeptical that these were 

 products calculated to appeal to the most prac- 

 tical growers. 



The full force of this will be evident if we 

 recall that the first announcement pictured and 

 described such fruits as the hybrid prune that was 

 afterward named the Splendor ; the hybrid plum 

 named the Wickson; the dewberry-raspberry 

 hybrid known everywhere in later years as the 

 Primus ; the offspring of the dewberry and Cuth- 

 bert raspberry now known as the Phenomenal; 

 the raspberry hybrid called October Giant and 

 the blackberry hybrid known as Paradox ; a seed- 

 ling rose of exquisite quality; and the profuse 

 double-flowering gladiolus. Interest was fur- 

 ther enhanced by the picturing of the hybrid 

 walnuts, the outlines of mammoth new quinces, 

 curiously diversified stalks of hybrid raspberries 

 and blackberries, leaves and stems of the rasp- 

 berry-strawberry hybrid, and the curiously de- 

 formed products of the ingrafted potato and 

 tomato vines. 



The supplementary brochure of 1894 added 

 striking photographic reproductions of the new 

 white blackberry named Iceberg, a number of 



