BERRIES AND GARDEN FRUITS 



that would have been highly satisfactory to almost 

 any other experimenter. 



Mr. Burbank was looking for the one best berry, 

 and he took no interest in a second-best. 



The amateur who is experimenting for his own 

 pleasure rather than for the production of com- 

 mercial fruits may well be satisfied if he produces 

 varieties differing from any others hitherto in ex- 

 istence, even though these new varieties should 

 not chance to be of superlative quality under gen- 

 eral culture. Yet it might be your good fortune 

 to produce a new fruit of distinction at the very 

 outset. In any event, you may without question 

 improve the quality of any fruit in your garden 

 if you will follow the methods that Mr. Burbank 

 has developed. You may grow better berries than 

 you ever grew before, and different ones from 

 those of your neighbor, with no great effort once 

 you know how. 



NEW VAEIETIES TO ORDER 



The production of new varieties of genuine im- 

 portance lies well within your grasp if you are 

 willing to take the slight trouble involved in hy- 

 bridizing different species of small fruits fol- 

 lowed by rigorous and persistent selection. For 

 that matter, it is not necessary to do pollenizing, 

 as the pioneer work has already been done with 

 most of our small fruits, and selection alone, sys- 

 tematically followed up, will bring interesting re- 

 sults. Mr. Burbank 's remarkable Himalaya berry 



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