LUTHER BURBANK 



"I think it hardly does the Sunberry pie justice 

 to compare it to blueberry pie. They have much 

 in common, but the Sunberry is richer. 



"I have never kept account of the yield, nor 

 tried for a large yield. I have a small strip of 

 ground, eight by sixty-five feet, which gave us a 

 pie each day from early in August until frost, 

 usually about November 1st, and left us a surplus 

 of forty to fifty quarts to can for winter use." 



So much for the fruit itself. Then touching on 

 the other aspect of the subject, the writer con- 

 tinues : 



"There has been much criticism here, some of 

 it the most senseless stuff I ever heard outside of 

 an asylum, and most of the extreme criticism by 

 those who never grew the plant. One man, an 

 attorney, planted some Sunberries and pulled them 

 up because they looked like nightshade. I com- 

 pletely converted him by sending him a pie." 



In conclusion, the writer goes to the heart of the 

 matter when he says: "I think much of this criti- 

 cism was originally due to some very unfair 

 articles that got copied and were thus spread 

 somewhat generally. As far as I can judge, the 

 original article was written out of pure malice. I 

 can account for it in no other way." 



These quotations will perhaps serve sufficiently 

 to suggest the quality of the Sunberry, and to sug- 



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