NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
to two and kept up the work thus to the end. 
The merging of the dewberry and the Siberian 
raspberry was complete. The fruit was unlike 
either parent in form, color and taste. There 
were no abnormalities. The flowering was 
fine, the fruitage large and natural, the foliage 
normal, the persistence absolute. Several 
years were allowed to elapse before the new 
fruit was put upon the market, in order to fix 
its new life habits, to make sure that it did 
not break away or return to some of its old 
ways. The flavor of the berry was neither that 
of the dewberry nor the raspberry, it was 
unique and most delightful to the taste of 
most people. It ripened its main crop at the 
same time with the strawberries and continued 
to bear more or less all summer. Its fruit 
ripened long before most of the standard, well- 
known kinds of raspberries and blackberries 
had begun to bloom. 
One curious feature of the new fruit, and 
one which seems specially significant, was that 
nearly all the other seedlings which grew from 
the same cross were absolutely barren. They 
blossomed abundantly and the blossoms of 
many plants seemed perfect, but Nature 
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