NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
One of the rarest of all the fruits which 
have come from Mr. Burbank’s hand is the 
white blackberry, the union of a small light- 
colored wild berry, of little if any impor- 
tance, and a Lawton blackberry. The union 
gave to the new plant great vigor and large 
size to the berry, the berry, at the same 
time, losing the dark purplish black of its 
larger ancestor and appearing a clear, beauti- 
ful white. The fruit is not only fair to look 
upon, but delightful to the taste. Some idea 
of the vastness of the work even in the pro- 
duction of berries is shown in the fact that 
in producing the white blackberry sixty-five 
thousand hybrid bushes which did not come 
up to the standard set for them were de- 
stroyed at one time. One plant out of sixty- 
five thousand, but the one successful plant 
paid for all the time, the trouble, and the 
infinite patience which had been expended. 
He is still working upon the white black- 
berry in order to give it still finer flavor 
and to increase its productiveness. 
In the crossing of the various berries, no- 
tably the blackberry and the raspberry, re- 
markable variations in both stalk and leaf 
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