UNIQUE QUALITY FRUITS 33 



Wineberry, Rubus phcenicolasius^ both natives of 

 Japan and China. 



The former is a double-flowering plant, often 

 cultivated for its flowers. It thrives well in Cali- 

 fornia in cool, shady places. The double-flower- 

 ing varieties, in my experience, do not fruit, but 

 there is a closely related form that produces 

 single flowers that mature fruit of an inferior 

 quality. 



The Wineberry was introduced into America 

 about twenty years ago by Mr. John Lewis 

 Childs. As an ornamental plant it is quite 

 promising. But its fruit, in its present state, is 

 of no value. 



The bright, cherry-red or sometimes salmon- 

 colored berries are usually small and soft, 

 slightly acid and insipid. 



But the strong, graceful, recurving branches, 

 and the large, ample leaves, with their white 

 undersurfaces, make the Wineberry a beautiful 

 and attractive shrub. And although the experi- 

 ments that have been made with it on my farms 

 have not suggested great promise as to fruit pro- 

 duction, yet I wish to state that the experiments 

 were not conducted extensively, nor for a long 

 period, and do not regard them as conclusive. 



Pending further investigation, the Wineberry 

 must be regarded as possibly presenting oppor- 



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