CERTAIN GENERAL FEATURES 
were seen. The stalks varied greatly in color, 
also, some of them white, some red, some 
dark purple, some bronze, some yellow, some 
of them brown or green or black. The 
leaves were remarkably interesting in their 
wonderful diversity. Literally scores of 
leaves, all different in shape and size, grew 
from the seed of one hybrid blackberry 
plant. 
A few seeds were secured for Mr. Bur- 
bank by one of his collectors from a black- 
berry growing in the Himalaya Mountains. 
The plants which came from the seeds were 
selected through a series of years with the 
end in view of encouraging and still further 
developing the rapidity of growth which was 
said to characterize the foreign berry. At 
last a single plant, a young plant at that, 
was developed which covered one hundred 
and fifty square feet of ground, stood eight 
feet in height, and bore over a bushel of 
fruit. 
I saw growing on Mr. Burbank’s grounds 
at Santa Rosa a row of plants apparently 
but lately out of the ground, possibly an 
inch in height. The row was about six feet 
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