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THE EVOLUTION OP OUR NATIVE FRUITS 



to be able to distinguish between the two sexes, except at the 

 fruiting season. It is not unusual to find persons with a stock 

 of tne young plants upon the market who are not aware that 

 there are sterile and fertile plants, and that either is worthless 

 without the other. Only last spring a ease of this kind eame 



Tinder my observation. I (Id not exaggerate the true condition 

 of affairs when 1 make the statement that 90 per cenl c>t' 

 all tin' bnffalo-berry stuck placid npon the market is gathered 

 from the native thickets, regardless of Bex, by just such men. 

 Such being the case, whal is t" be expected in return? 



Surely nothing more than we have denunciation by the unfoi- 



