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berries of the <>1<1 World from a single species, -till 

 greater results may be expected from the ameliora- 

 tion of two species which freely hybridize. 



Outlying Types 



Tin- Salmon-berry of the Pacific coast has come 

 into cultivation within the last very few years as a 

 fruit plant. The best type i- Eubus Nutkanus var. 

 velutinu8. Charles Boward Shinn, of the California 

 Experiment Station, writing in "Garden ami Forest" 

 in L894, says that this plant "belongs more distinctly 

 \i> tli.- northern California coast, where it is highly 

 esteemed, bul it does nol grow well elsewhere." 

 Wickson, in "California Fruits," says that the variety 

 "thrives best in tin- upper coast counties, ami 

 efforts to introduce it ;i- a commercial fruil generally 

 throughout tin- Btate have not proved successful." 

 Rub us Nutkanus itself ranges from northern Michigan 

 t'» Alaska and New Mexico, always being a boreal, 

 Bubalpine or highland plant. It is closely allied t<> 

 the common flowering -raspberry, • >!• Rubus odoratus, of 

 the Bast, from which it differs chiefly in having 

 white flowers, a Less dense clothing <>t' glandular 

 hairs, less acuminate Lobes to the large Leaves, and a 

 larger fruit. It bears a Large and sweet hemispherical 

 red Fruit. This species itself, as will as tin- variety 

 velutinus, i> recommended for cultivation. Both are 

 known as Salmon -berries. 



