New Creations in Fruits and Flowers. 



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Raspberry-Strawberry Hybrids. 



Out of seven or eight hundred of these curious hybrids not one has ever 

 produced a berry, though blooming with the greatest profusion; as the l)lossonis 

 fade a bunch forms resembling a miniature Strawberry, but they never mature. 

 The plants when young are practically Strawberry plants, but with age pro- 

 duce canes five or six feet high, multiplying by curious underground stolons. 

 The leaves are trifoliate invariably; the canes are thornless or nearly so. 



A cluster of blossoms and leaves from thirty varieties are shown in the 

 photograph on next page. 



" I have recently been to see Luther Burbaiik, and have examined his wonderful work at 

 hybridizing. He has row after row of hybrids, such as ten } ears ago were thought ini])os- 

 sible — five solid acres of them, after tens of thousands had been cast aside, and he is con- 

 stantly rooting out the poorer ones, wliich the student of the flora might spend weeks over. 

 His manipulations are so exact, that his hybrids are hybrids. Those between the Raspberry 

 and the vStrawberry are very curious. They grow about sixteen inches high, with a vStraw- 

 berry leaf and bristly stems with peculiar underground stolons. They bloom but do not 

 fruit. A true hybrid may be nearly an exact reproduction of either parent, showing no mark 

 of hybridity whatever, ^-et if it fruits, seedlings of it may go all to pieces. Mr. Burbank's 

 grandest success so far is on the Rubus family. What the outcome of such a vast conglomer- 

 ation will be I have no idea. I think, that in view of all that has been done, it would not 

 be very wild to say that all plants could be hyl)ridized if one had time and skill. 



" Mr. Burbank's grounds prove that Darwin was right when he said: ' It is reasonable to 

 suppose that all life has descended from one or a few original germ or germs.' " 



D. B. Wp:ir, in Rural New Yorker. 



Seedling Rose. 



M.— 11120. ^f^Jut ' ^o^^^-^^ 



A most beautiful, light rosy crimson, ever-blooming Rose, grown from 

 mixed seed. It has been generally pronounced "The best bedding Rose." It 

 will always give satisfaction, as the bush grows in a compact, rounded form, 

 and has firm glossy leaves, which are never disea.sed. It is always in bloom 

 first of all, and continuing throughout the whole season is also the last to stop 

 blooming. 



Fifty large bushes. Price, $300. 



Seedling Rose. 



M.— 191)2<S. 



Grown also from mixed seed. Very closely resembles Papa Gontier, but is 

 more double, and blooms mtich more profusely. 

 Fifty large bushes. Price, $300. 



Seedling Rose. ^ 



M. 17«S0(}. 

 Peachblovv.'' 



It is impossible to do this Rose justice by description, as the peculiar 

 shading is something not before developed in Roses to the extent that it is 

 in this one. The inside of the petals is a pale, silvery, peach pink, like 

 La France ; the rever.se, dark, bronz}^ carmine pink. When the buds are open- 

 ing the effect can be imagined. One of the heartiest of plants, compact grow- 

 ing, with large healthy foliage. 



Forty large bushes. Price, $300. 



