ON SOME ODD BERRIES 



Cloudberry in mind. It offers obvious possibili- 

 ties as a hybridizing agent to give hardiness of the 

 most "ironclad" kind to a variety that may lack 

 that essential quality. 



Possibly the Japanese Mayberry will ultimate- 

 ly be made adaptable to northern climates by 

 such an infusion of new blood. 



THE EVERGREEN BLACKBERRY 



As further illustrating the wide range of the 

 bramble tribe, we may refer to a species that is 

 indigenous to the South Sea Islands, whence it 

 was introduced into this country and Europe so 

 long ago that there is no clear record of its com- 

 ing. Indeed, the precise place of its origin is 

 somewhat in doubt. 



The species referred to is the Evergreen Black- 

 berry, Rubus lacinietus. In our northwestern 

 states, especially in western Oregon, this black- 

 berry is cultivated extensively. It is popular as a 

 home berry, since it produces fruit from midsum- 

 mer until late autumn. 



As its name implies, this is an evergreen, or 

 nearly evergreen plant. It is a trailing bush with 

 thick perennial canes armed with very stout re- 

 curved thorns. 



This blackberry was worked upon quite ex- 

 tensively on my place in 1890, and the following 

 years, at the time when my chief experiments in 



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