NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



to two and kept up the work thus to the end. 

 The merging of the dewberry and the Siberian 

 raspberry was complete. The fruit was unhke 

 either parent in form, color and taste. There 

 were no abnormalities. The flowering was 

 fine, the fruitage large and natural, the foliage 

 normal, the persistence absolute. Several 

 years were allowed to elapse before the new 

 fruit was put upon the market, in order to fix 

 its new life habits, to make sure that it did 

 not break away or return to some of its old 

 ways. The flavor of the berry was neither that 

 of the dewberry nor the raspberry, it was 

 unique and most delightful to the taste of 

 most people. It ripened its main crop at the 

 same time with the strawberries and continued 

 to bear more or less all summer. Its fruit 

 ripened long before most of the standard, well- 

 known kinds of raspberries and blackberries 

 had begun to bloom. 



One curious feature of the new fruit, and 

 one which seems specially significant, was that 

 nearly all the other seedlings which grew from 

 the same cross were absolutely barren. They 

 blossomed abundantly and the blossoms of 

 many plants seemed perfect, but Nature 



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