400 The Loganberry. 
for home use. The golden or yellow raspberries are also out of 
favcr because they are shy bearers and cut no figure in the Cal- 
ifornia product. 
Blackberry-Raspberry Hybrids—Two crosses of California 
origin have been widely distributed and have demonstrated great 
value. 
The Loganberry was originated by Judge J. H. Logan, of 
Santa Cruz, and is a cross between the California wild black- 
berry and a red raspberry, thought to be the Red Antwerp. It 
was a chance-hybrid developed by growing plants from the 
seed of the wild blackberry in 1881. The plant was multiplied 
by its originator and fruited for more than ten years, plants being 
meantime given to Mr. James Waters, of Watsonville, who grew 
it on a commercial scale and was gratified at the results of his 
marketing of the fruit. The variety was first given to the public 
through the University of California in 1893 and has since then 
been propagated by nurserymen and sold in large quantities. It 
has proved a most valuable fruit in alleparts of California, and has 
commanded the attention of pomologists and growers all over 
the world. The Loganberry is an exceedingly robust grower, 
and has unique foliage and cane growth as well as fruit. The 
fruit is strikingly large and handsome: sometimes and inch and 
a quarter long, with the shape of a blackberry, and sometimes 
the hue of a dark red raspberry. Its flavor is unique and pe- 
culiar, and gives to many tastes suggestions of the combination 
of blackberry and raspberry flavors. The culture of the Logan- 
berry is like that of a dewberry—both in growth and propaga- 
tion. 
The Primus is another blackberry-raspberry hybrid, origi- 
nated by Luther Burbank, of Santa Rosa. It is describ-d as 
like a raspberry in color and shape, though much larger, many 
specimens attaining a length of an inch and a half by three- 
quarters of an inch in diameter. It has a larger and softer pulp 
core or center than the blackberry, and does not come off the 
stem like a cap as a raspberry, but it is a little more tart and is 
best cooked. It ripens early and the plant vields well. It has 
been widely distributed and is popular. It has a trailing habit. 
THE STRAWBERRY. 
“Strawberries all the year round” is the trite expression by 
which the charms of the California climate are characterized. 
It is no fiction, for in the wonderfully-even climate of regions 
adjacent to the coast and in thermal belts in the interior, the 
strawberry plant blooms and bears almost continuously, pro- 
viding proper moisture conditions are maintained in the soil. 
There are, however, more or less well-defined crops, and “straw- 
