NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



none of them has failed to bear more fruit than 

 almost any other known fruiting plant. The 

 marvelous bearing qualities of the new fruit 

 will be among its chief commercial recommen- 

 dations, but coupled with this is delightful 

 flavor and attractiveness of appearance. The 

 new fruit varies from the size of a large blue- 

 berry to that of a large huckleberry, and is, 

 curiously enough, the exact counterpart in 

 every possible particular of the common low- 

 bush blueberry, the Vaccinmm Pennsylvani- 

 cum. Mr. Burbank says that no person could 

 possibly detect the difference between the two 

 eaten in a pie or, as so many prefer, in a bowl 

 of milk, and yet the two plants are wholly sep- 

 arate from each other. When cooked for use 

 as a sauce or for other forms of dessert, the 

 new fruit does not differ in appearance or taste 

 from the blueberry. The seeds are no larger 

 than the blueberry seeds. 



But the best quality of all is their enormous 

 productiveness. The plant will continue bear- 

 ing successive crops all summer, and until 

 winter, appearing in fine large clusters. In 

 such climates as that of California, the bearing 

 continues through most of the winter. The 



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