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THE EVOLUTION OF OUR NATIVE FRUITS 



rather than spreading, the topmost fruits more or 

 less aggregated. The fruits are rounder than in the 

 Long -cluster group, the drupelets larger and mostly 

 softer and less uniform in arrangement. This type I 

 have designated the "Short -cluster Blackberries." 



Fig. 01. Snyder. One of the short-cluster types, Full Bice. 



This group is the most prolific in cultivated varieties. 

 One of the recent garden forms is shown in Pig. 63. 

 A third type <>t' blackberry comprises dwarf, strict, 

 leafy bushes, generally growing on dryish soils from 

 New Brunswick to Kansas and the Gulf, bearing the 

 Mowers in shorl Leafj clusters (Fig. 64), the leaflets 



