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must be regarded as having possibilites of develop- 

 ment. 



It was perhaps largely a matter of chance that 

 the fruits we have mentioned came under man's 

 tutorage at an early date and thus were developed 

 to their present status. 



Some other members of the family, such as the 

 hawthorne, the mountain ash, the wineberry, the 

 Juneberry, the thimbleberry, and the bridal rose, 

 have failed to be taken under man's protection and 

 hence have not had their fruiting possibilities de- 

 veloped. But some at least of these are well 

 worthy of consideration, and from among them 

 there will doubtless be developed sooner or later 

 many new varieties of fruit that will be considered 

 valuable acquisitions. 



We shall be by no means confined, however, 

 in the present chapter to the consideration of 

 members of the wonderful rose family. We have 

 already seen that there are other families having 

 members that bear admirable fruits, even though 

 no single family shows so long a roll of important 

 members. 



We shall now have our attention called to yet 

 another coterie of fruit bearers of which good 

 things may be expected. Some of these are fa- 

 miliar natives or plants that have become accli- 

 mated in this country, others are foreigners known 



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