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berry and raspberry families, I looked over 
carefully last week in fruit. But it is only 
the pure seedlings of the Lucretia that I 
purpose writing of at present. The truly 
wonderful crosses and hybrids now in fruit 
at the Burbank establishment may be look- 
ed up at some future time. Mr. Burbank 
estimates that he has grown about 25,000 
pure Lucretia seedlings. From these he 
selected, from time to time, some three 
or four dozen showing the greatest prom- 
ise. These I saw in fruit last week, growing 
alongside of the original Lucretia Dewher- 
ry, all growing in the light sandy loam of 
the Sebastopol region in this, Sonoma Coun- 
ty, without fertilizers or other stimulation 
than good culture, and without irrigation. 
The Lucretia was showing its usual great 
productiveness, and fairly healthy foliage. 
Its seedlings as selected, were nearly every- 
one by far its superior in every point, some 
of them wonderfully so. Larger, if twelve 
of the best Lucretia would weigh an ounce 
I would say that from five to six berries of 
the seedlings would do so, with very much 
better flavor, vigor of growth, and health 
of foliage; in productiveness excelling the 
Lucretia tiro to four times. Such was my 
estimate after a patient survey of the whole 
lot. These seedlings should pro* e as hardy 
as their parent, everywhere. If they do, 
and their trial being in open field culture, 
they will prove of the greatest value, their 
culture being so much easier and pleasanter 
than the high bush, surkering blackberries. 
Besides, in colder countries, where it is too 
cold for the finer bush blackberries, these 
running dewberries can be readily protect- 
ed and fruited. A ripe dewberry is too soft 
to ship, but gathered when it hist turns 
black, it will ship as well, and is as good, or 
better, for dl purposes as fully ripe black- 
berries. When fully ripe the de a berry is 
one of the most luscious and melting of all 
small fruits. There can be no doubt, I think, 
that these new dewberries will hold up 
to their present promise, and if they do, 
horticulture has in them grand prizes. 
Luther Burbank has to-day the largest 
Experimental Horticultural Station on this 
earth. I think I would be within the limits 
of truth if I said of all others combined. 
These 25,000 Lucretia seedlings are simply 
one item of his immense establishment. 
Another is the growing from hybridized 
and cross pollinated seed, and flowering, 
26.000 seedling roses. 1,500.000 pear seed- 
lings from the 20 or more best varieties 
have been grown to select from. 750,000 of 
them are from the great, luscious California 
Bartlett, yet but one out of this vast num- 
ber equals the Bartlett in all points and not 
more than 20 come near it, so all are 
thrown aside, for Mr. Burbank has set his 
mark high, and his new things must sur- 
pass all known varieties, in all points, or 
they are discarded. Such is the difficulty in 
gaining new fruits of value from one spec- 
ies. Other species are more plastic. From 
100.000 seedling plums from selected seed, 
a few hundred were selected, nearly half 
of which equaled the originals and several 
were very much their superior. 15,000 
seedling strawberries have been grown, and 
several hundreds selected and fruited, with 
a fair showing for decided acquisitions. I 
will try and keep run of the other fruits as 
they ripen. 
Plant Seeds. — Hybridize and cross fer- 
tilize and plant the resulting seeds. You 
may get prizes. Mr. Burbank's smallest ef- 
fort has given the grandest result so far; his 
greatest, the least. It is the most uncer- 
tain of all lotteries for prizes, but it is won- 
derfully fascinating. — D. B. Wier, Petalu- 
ma, Cal. 
The Gandy is a prize strawberry. I ship- 
ped the fruit of it to Raton, New Mexico, 
and it arrived in good order: it is large and 
fairly productive. The Bouiba was also a 
capital berry but Itaska is no good. — A. H. 
Griesa, Douglas Co., Kansas. 
Pineapple or Bonanza ? 
In his report on New’ Strawberries, Mat- 
thew Crawford says: 
“Pineapple. — This, also, was a disappoint- 
ment to us, as it proved to be neither more 
nor less than the Bonanza , a variety that 
we tested and discarded some years ago. It 
was originated and named at Ada, O. A. 
M. Purdy, who had it on trial, renamed it 
Pineapple , and sent it out as a premium to 
anyone who would get up a club for a pa- 
per he was then publishing. It came to 
the surface again in Maryland last year, as 
something new, and was so well recom- 
mended that w’e procured a stock, from 
which we sold a great many plants. This 
last spring v\ e sent for more, and planted 
half an acre, all of which we shall destroy. 
The fruit is large but terribly misshapen, 
salmon-colored throughout, and as salvy as 
a banana. It may be of value in some 
places, but not here.” 
The Pineapple was introduced by A. H. 
Clark of Maryland, to w hom we wrote for 
information, calling his attention to this 
statement, and to which he replied, “The 
Pineapple originated with A. M. Purdy, 
and is not the Bonanza' as claimed by cer- 
tain nurserymen. * * * I have grown 
the Bonanza and if the plants were true it 
is nothing to compare with the Pineapple 
which is very productive with us in this 
section, yielding enormous crops.” 
Now it happens that in looking up this 
matter we came across certain facts that 
may be of interest in this connection and 
enable one to form his own conclusion re- 
garding the identity of this berry. 
In 1874 a strawberry originated at Lo- 
gansport, Indiana, and was named Bonan- 
za. It was propagated and grown by Mr. 
John A. Cantley of that place. Mr. Cant- 
ley says that in 1882 or 1883 A. M. Purdy 
offered to pay $100.00 per plant for 10 plants 
of any variety of strawberry that would 
beat the Big Bob in size. He entered the 
contest with Bonanza but, it is needless to 
say, did not receive the reward. Finally 
he allowed Purdy to obtain from him three 
plants on condition that he would not offer 
them for sale without his (Cantley’s) per- 
mission. Notwithstanding which, Mr. Cant- 
ley says, Purdy issued a circular offering 
plants for sale. 
Mr. Crawford’s Bonanza came from Pur- 
dy. Mr. Clark says that the Pineapple was 
introduced by Purdy. Mr. Crawford says 
he procured his Pineapple from Maryland 
and that Bonanza and Pineapple are ident- 
ical. What is the natural conclusion ? 
Did you ever see anything grow and 
spread like the Golden Queen raspberry? I 
never did. I keep cutting down and pull- 
ing up the plants, as I apprehend they would 
run all oVer the ground if I were to let 
them.— John VanCourt, Camden Co.,N. J. 
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