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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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