LUTHER BURBANK 



far surpasses any other berry plant ever grown. 

 Reports tell of a single bush bearing two hundred 

 pounds of berries in a season. 



"My daughter and I picked fifty pounds of ber- 

 ries from one Himalaya bush the latter part of 

 August, 1906," writes one enthusiast, "and we 

 scarcely missed them from the bush. This was 

 after many others had picked from the same bush. 

 I picked three pounds standing in one position. 

 I could have picked double that amount if I could 

 have reached into the bushes farther, but the en- 

 tangled branches with their sharp thorns pre- 

 vented me." 



The narrator adds this comment: "It is my 

 opinion that if this bush were properly pruned, 

 fertilized, and irrigated, as well as shaded from 

 the extreme heat of the sun in July and August, 

 it would bear between three and four hundred 

 pounds in a season." 



Such a report is typical. The prolific bearing 

 of the Himalaya is the subject of astonished com- 

 ment from everyone on seeing this extraordinary 

 vine for the first time. 



The fruit itself is of medium to large size, un- 

 usually sweet, and spicy, with small seeds, and 

 fine in quality. The berries grow in clusters some- 

 times a foot or more across, and they continue to 

 ripen after most other blackberries are gone. 



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