WORKS BY PROFESSOR BAILEY 



The Evolution of Our Native Fruits 



By L. H. BAILEY 



Professor of Horticulture in the Cornell University 



412 PAGES 125 ILLUSTRATIONS $2.00 



IN this entertaining volume, the origin and development of the fruits 

 peculiar to North America are inquired into, and the personality 

 of those horticultural pioneers whose almost forgotten labors have 

 given us our most valuable fruits is touched upon. There has been 

 careful research into the history of the various fruits, even in the 

 records of the great European botanists writing of American economic 

 botany. The conclusions reached, the information presented, and the 

 suggestions as to developments, ably set forth in the terse style of 

 the author at his best, cannot but be valuable to any thoughtful 

 fruit-grower. 



THE EVOLUTION OF OUR NATIVE FRUITS discusses The Rise of the American Grape 

 (North America a Natural Vineland, Attempts to Cultivate the European Grape, The 

 Experiments of the Dufours, The Branch of Promise, John Adlum and the Catawba, 

 Rise of Commercial Viticulture, Why did the Early Vine Experiments Fail ? Synopsis of 



the American Grapes) ; The Strange History of 



the Mulberries (The Early Silk Industry, The 

 "Multicaulis Craze,"); Evolution of Ameri- 

 can Plums and Cherries (Native Plums in 

 General, The Chickasaw, Hortulana, Marianna 

 and Beach Plum Groups, Pacific Coast Plum, 

 Various Other Types of Plums; Native Cherries, 

 Dwarf Cherry Group) ; Native Apples (Indig- 

 enous Species, Amelioration has Begun) ; Ori- 

 gin of American Raspberry - growing (Early 

 American History, Present Types, Outlying 

 Types) ; Evolution of Blackberry and Dewberry 

 Culture (The High -bush Blackberry and Its 

 Kin, The Dewberries, Botanical Names) ; Various 

 Types of Berry -like Fruits (The Gooseberry, 

 Native Currants, Juneberry, Buffalo Berry, 

 Elderberry, High -bush Cranberry, Cranberry, 

 Strawberry) ; Various Types of Tree Fruits (Per- 

 simmon, Custard Apple Tribe, Thorn -Apples, 

 Nut -Fruits) ; General Remarks on the Improve- 

 ment of our Native Fruits (What Has Been 

 Done, What Probably Should D,J D .:< 



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field strawberry in the improvement of the garden 

 varieties has evidently been very small. 



A full discussion of this strawberry evolution is 

 made in Essay XXV., "Survival of the Unlike," and it 

 is, therefore, unnecessary to pursue the subject here. 



Tl. 113. Plant of the common wild trwberrj. showfn 

 the runners form before the frail i mi>tnrd_ 



It mny be said, however, that there are three leading 

 groups or types of strawberries native to North Amer- 

 ica. the Scarlet or Virginian group, the Vesca or Old 



