LUTHER BURBANK 



where in later years as the Primus; the offspring 

 of the dewberry and Cuthbert raspberry now 

 known as the Phenomenal; the raspberry hybrid 

 called October Giant and the blackberry hybrid 

 known as Paradox; a seedling rose of exquisite 

 quality; and the profuse-bearing double Gladiolus. 

 Interest was further enhanced by the picturing of 

 the hybrid walnuts, the outlines of mammoth new 

 quinces, curiously diversified stalks of hybrid 

 raspberries and blackberries, leaves and stems of 

 the raspberry-strawberry hybrid, and the curi- 

 ously deformed products of the engrafted potato 

 and tomato vines. 



The supplementary brochure of 1894 added 

 striking photographic reproductions of the new 

 white blackberry named Iceberg, a number of 

 hybrid liles, the new and beautiful clematis flow- 

 ers, the miniature calla Snowflake, branches of 

 the new hybrid Wax Myrtles, a score or so of 

 curiously varying fruits of the Japanese quince, 

 and the new rose Peachblow. 



There were also pictures showing the curious 

 and spectacular diversity among leaves of the 

 hybrid blackberries that could not fail to excite 

 the attention of the least observant. 



The contrast between the broad solid leaf of 

 one plant, and the fimbriated fern-like foliage of 

 another; the observation that some leaves were 



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