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THE EVOLUTION OF OUR NATIVE FRUITS 



house, about 25 years since. The thicket was cut 

 down and the ground cultivated sonic two or three 

 years ; culture being discontinued, another crab 

 thicket sprang up, and when bearing, one tree (the 



Fie;, 19. Soulard era'' 



I'linis Soulardi. Pivo-eiehtha 



natural Bize. 



identical kind now called Soulard crab) was dis- 

 covered. The fruit astonished me by its remarkably 

 large size, being sent to me by a friend whose 

 widowed mother, Mrs. Freeman Delauriere, occupied 

 the farm. I immediately propagated by grafting upon 

 crab stock and upon our common Beedlings. Upon 



