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also observed to be imperfect. The third plant re- 

 sembles a blackberry in every way. though the spines 

 are less numerous and shorter. Some of the leaves 

 consist of 5-pedate leaflets, as in the blackberry pure 

 and simple. The back part of the leaves has none of 

 the whitish down or bloom common to the raspberry. 

 The canes are furrowed as in the blackberry. Tin- 

 flowers resemble those of the raspberry, and the drupes 

 separate from the receptacle as in the raspberry. 



"Tin- best berry bore •"> drupes. These were jel 

 black, of large size, and of the raspberry flavor, in so 

 far as could be judged. It will be remembered thai 

 these plants all came from raspberry mothers. If 

 judged from the pasl Beason's behavior, it will appear 

 that little is to be hoped from this hybridization. We 

 have aboul fifteen plants which have not yet fruited, 

 besides quite a number of hybrid seeds produced the 

 present season." — Rural New-Yorker, Sept. 22, 1886 



"Another of 'The Rural New-Yorker's' blackberry- 

 raspberry hybrids fruited during tin' past ^'•.•i><»n — and 

 another chance t<. record a failure. Tin- planl 



trong ami vigorous, with characteristics l»>th of 

 the raspberry and blackberry, It resembles the black- 

 berry, however, in mosl respects, though distinctly uol 

 a blackberry. There was not a perfect berrj <>n the 

 plant. It i- an interesting tact that though the drupe- 

 nrere those of the blackberry, the 1 1« > w « • i- of the 

 raspberrj was pronounced. We have .1 dozen of these 

 hybrids which have not yet fruited, but those which 

 have fruited give little or n<> promise that anything 

 <»t' value will ever come from the hybridization beyond 

 thi- interesting fact itself." /.'"/•<// New-Yorker, 

 \ ember 23, I 



