THE NEW WORK 



plants are raised in the same way as tomatoes. 

 Mr. Burbank points out the fact that a man 

 can now raise blueberries (or what is their 

 equivalent) in his back yard as cheaply and 

 easily as he can raise tomatoes. In acre lots 

 the new berry promises to have important 

 commercial features, making it, indeed, a large 

 factor to be reckoned with in the future of 

 fruit-growing in America and in all the rest of 

 the world as well. Mr. Burbank says it must 

 not be confounded with a so-called "garden 

 huckleberry," Solarium nigrum, or black night- 

 shade, having a most disagreeable taste and an 

 offensive odor. Any one, he says, who can eat 

 a second berry has unusual courage. 



Allied with the production of this new fruit 

 is the work upon the bitter elderberry, which 

 has for so many years been valuable chiefly as 

 a remedy for certain diseases and sometimes 

 used in the making of pies, in the manufac- 

 ture of wine and for use in the adulteration of 

 port wine. Mr. Burbank some time ago began 

 work upon a bright yellow variety from which 

 he produced some thousands of seedlings. 

 Out of the thousands one was discovered 

 which had a quality that he much desired — it 



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