DEVELOPMENT OF HARDY FRUITS 53 



Hardy Blackberries. 



The blackberry is a delicious fruit, but little has so far been done 

 so far as we are aware in developing varieties for special conditions. 

 The wild species of this fruit does not extend as far North as those 

 of the raspberry, currant, gooseberry, and strawberry, and the cul- 

 tivated blackberries that we have did not come from the most 

 Northern types with the result that none of these are perfectly 

 hardy at Ottawa and in many other parts of Canada and the 

 colder parts of the United States. Quite recently we have collected 

 wild plants in the neighborhood of Ottawa where the blackberry 

 is near its Northern limit with the purpose of crossing these with 

 the hardiest of the named varieties. There should be such fine 

 varieties as Kitatinny and finer, that would be perfectly hardy as 

 far North as the wild types extend. 



Hardy Raspberries. 



The wild red raspberry extends as far North as the Arctic Circle 

 in Canada and yet little has yet been done to obtain raspberries 

 as good as Cuthbert which will be quite hardy without protection 

 everywhere where the wild one succeeds. The Cuthbert has a 

 very wide adaptation in the more temperate parts of the United 

 States and Canada, but who will say that better varieties will 

 not be obtained which will be more adapted to special conditions. 

 The Brighton and Count are two early raspberries originated at 

 Ottawa which are among the hardiest tested there and the Herbert 

 originated as a chance seedling with Mr. R. B. Whyte of Ottawa 

 is the best main crop variety for that climate. Here again the 

 local sorts seem more adapted than any others which have been 

 tried. Prof. Hansen of the South Dakota Experiment Station has 

 selected the Sunbeam out of a large number of wild seedlings as 

 being especially suited to prairie conditions, while on the Western 

 Coast the Loganberry, a hybrid between the raspberry and black- 

 berry, originating out there, succeeds much better than in the 

 East. 



