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the Phenomenal, were fixed new species which 

 breed true from the seed. 



In another clause reference is made to "four- 

 teen years" of experiment, revealing the fact that 

 the blackberries and raspberries were among the 

 plants that we had found time to experiment 

 with extensively during the ten-year period of 

 the nursery experience that preceded the estab- 

 lishment of my experiment gardens. 



It was partly because these fruits had been 

 experimented with for this long period that so 

 large a section of my "New Creations" was 

 devoted to new races of hybrid berries. 



It should not be understood, however, that the 

 work with the blackberries and raspberries stood 

 all by itself in presenting evidence of the fertility 

 of hybrids, and in thus throwing new light on 

 the problems of evolution. 



On the contrary, evidence of precisely the 

 same character was presented by one after 

 another of the different records that made up the 

 total of more than fifty new hybrid varieties of 

 nuts and orchard fruits and flowers offered for 

 introduction in the pages of "New Creations." 



The hybrid Walnut, known as the Royal, one 

 parent of which was the black walnut of the east 

 and the other the black walnut of California, was 

 represented by its gigantic nut, depicted on the 



