New Creations in Fruits and Flowers. 



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Thus still another new race of berries has been added to the horticultural 

 world. 



Crossing species is but unlocking the door to the mysteries beyond, but 

 long, tedious, careful selection produces grand results, yet few have the pati- 

 ence to persistently follow up Nature until she is glad to yield up some of her 

 l)oundless horticultural treasures. 



Stock on hand of this most delicious variety: One large original plant and 

 several strong suckers. Price, $400. 



" I think a threat deal of the work you are doing for humanity, and hope you may live 

 to ori<>;inate many more new varieties of merit." 



C. \V. Gammon, Walnut Grove, Cal. 



Hybrid Raspberry. 



" Sugar Hybrid." 



Another hybrid from one of my second generation Shaffer's Colossal 

 Seedlings and Souhegan. It is the sweetest of all red Raspberries ; Krinckle's 

 Orange even is not to be compared with it in sweetness and aroma. The ber- 

 ries are quite large ; about the size of Marlboro; of a dark red color, and freely 

 produced. The vines are tall and slender and almost thornless, and are a com- 

 promise in growth between the two species. 



Stock on hand: One large original plant, and four strong bearing-plants. 

 Price, $400. 



" But every man is not a Luther Burhank, who has few superiors in horticultural mat- 

 ters." — Sebasiopol Times. 



Hybrid Berry. 



" Paradox." 



This wonderful berr}' appeared in the fourth generation from a cross of 

 Crystal White Blackberry and Shaffer's Colossal Raspberry. The plant is in 

 every respect a most perfect balance between the two species. The wood, 

 bark, leaves, blossoms, prickles, roots, fruit and seeds cannot by any test be 

 proven to be either one or the other. 



Most of the plants from this cross are partly or wdioll}^ barren, though 

 blooming freely, and often obtaining tree-like proportions. This one produces 

 an abundance of oval, light red berries of good size, larger than either 

 progenitor and of superior quality. It has been, like myriads of others on my 

 grounds, a standing wonder to the many botanists and biologists who have 

 seen it. (See last page of cover.) 



From it, thoroughly distinct Raspberries, thoroughly distinct Blackberries, 

 or any conceivable combination of both can be raised. 



One very strong clump. Price, $800. 



