ON THE SUNBERRY 



and next season there grew from them a crop of 

 plants precisely like the parents. The progeny 

 of the hybrids followed their parents more closely 

 than the unhybridized offspring of either of the 

 Solanums used in the original cross usually do. 



As already noted, all species of wild Solanums 

 tend to vary, but the new species reproduced itself 

 exactly, except that a very slight difference in the 

 flavor of the berries was barely perceptible. 



As two crops of these plants could be raised in 

 a season, they were multiplied rapidly, and there 

 was astonishingly little variation in the size, qual- 

 ity, or growth of the bushes. "Without exception 

 the plants resembled the original hybrid, and 

 differed radically from either parent of that 

 hybrid. 



It was obvious, therefore, that a new and fixed 

 species of Solaiium had been evolved through the 

 hybridizing experiment. As the reader already 

 knows, the new plant was christened the Sun- 

 berry. 



The unwarranted change of the name from 

 Sunberry, the only name I ever authorized or 

 approved for the plant, to "Wonderberry", and 

 the mis-statements that have gained currency re- 

 garding the origin of the plant and the character- 

 istics of its fruit have been sufficiently referred to. 



The true qualities of the fruit itself have also 



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