LUTHER BURBANK 



repeat, that any theory of the origin of species 

 that does not recognize this among the methods 

 employed by Nature for the production of new 

 species is altogether inadequate. 

 Another New Species — ^The Phenomenal Berry 



The result of thus mating the dewberry with 

 the little raspberry from an almost Arctic climate 

 having proved so remarkable, almost numberless 

 tests were made in which the dewberry was 

 crossed with a great variety of other raspberries 

 and blackberries. 



And among the hybrids thus produced there 

 was at least one that might be considered more 

 remarkable even than the Primus berry. 



This was the fruit which afterward became 

 famous as the Phenomenal berry. 



This extraordinary berry was the outcome of 

 a series of experiments in which the red and 

 yellow raspberries were variously combined with 

 the dewberry. 



In the first generation of these hybrids, numer- 

 ous red berries and black berries were produced, 

 but no yellow ones. A large proportion of the red 

 varieties followed the raspberry in general char- 

 acteristics except in form, but some of them ac- 

 quired the high flavor of the dewberry combined 

 with the aroma of the raspberry. 



Most of the seedlings of this first generation 



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