LUTHER BURBANK 



resemble the wild dewberry in habit of trailing 

 along the ground. Yet there were some that fa- 

 vored the raspberry, standing upright. In flavor 

 many were a good combination of the two par- 

 ents, but the variation was pronounced in this 

 respect. Some were highly flavored while others 

 were quite insipid, and between the two were all 

 gradations. Variations in size and shape were 

 equally marked. 



Most of these seedlings were quite productive, 

 but no one plant was sufficiently valuable to war- 

 rant its introduction as a new variety worthy of 

 cultivation. 



Berries were gathered, however, from the most 

 promising of the dewberry-raspberry hybrids. 

 Among the second-generation seedlings thus pro- 

 duced was one that was of different caliber from 

 all the rest as shown by the character of its fruit. 



No such berries were perhaps ever seen before 

 as those that grew on this second-generation off- 

 spring of the Cuthbert raspberry and the Cali- 

 fornia dewberry. 



Some of the berries were an inch and a half 

 long and an inch in diameter. They were a dark 

 rich crimson color, slightly downy, and glossy. 

 In flavor they combined the qualities of raspberry 

 and blackberry, both flavors seeming to be in- 

 tensified. In a word the fruit was a blend be- 



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