NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
plants were entirely thornless, absolutely and 
invariably persisting in the strawberry charac- 
teristics. They bore leaves, but instead of 
having raspberry leaves, as would be natural 
to go with their long stems, the leaves were 
all trifoliate, a regular strawberry leaf. Under 
ground, the plant sent out long branches, or 
stolons, precisely as the strawberry plant sends 
them out above ground. These stolons bore 
plants, and when they came up they took on 
the length of stem of the raspberry parent, 
growing from three to five feet in height. 
Flowers came in great abundance, three or 
four times as many as the raspberry, seven or 
eight times as many as the strawberry. But 
the plant was foredoomed, for it bore no fruit. 
Flowers came in abundance, indeed, lived their 
allotted time, and dropped to the ground, but 
the only fruit, or approach to a fruit was a 
little knob where the fruit should have been, 
a very travesty of a berry. Hundreds of these 
plants were grown. 
An apple was crossed with a blackberry. 
The plant which followed was apple so far as 
foliage and general character were concerned, 
although in the thickness and general charac- 
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