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BUSH-FRUITS 



In the characters of the plant, and in the shape and conforma- 

 tion of the fruit the variety is essentially like the Aughinbaugh, 

 propagating entirely by tips, though by artificial methods they 

 may be grown from hard wood cuttings. The core remains with 

 the fruit, like the blackberry, its principal resemblance to the 



Fig. 31. The Loganberry. 



raspberry being in color and flavor, although the dewberry dom- 

 inates in flavor. Judge Logan says : " As to the fact of the plant 

 being a hybrid between the blackberry and the raspberry, of 

 course there is no absolute proof. The color, with the distinct 

 raspberry flavor of the fruit, and the circumstances under which it 

 originated, I think render the fact of such a cross almost cer- 

 tain." 



The other plants in this lot of seedlings Judge Logan thinks to 

 have been crosses between the Aughinbaugh and the Texas, as he 



