A boysenberry is a cross between a loganberry, a raspberry, and the Pacific blackberry. The loganberry ( Rubus × loganobaccus) is a hybrid produced from crossing a Blackberry and a Raspberry. The raspberry (plural raspberries) is the edible Fruit of a multitude of plant species in the subgenus Idaeobatus of the genus Rubus Rubus ursinus is a species of Blackberry or Dewberry known by the common names California blackberry and Pacific blackberry. ^[2] For a berry, this is a very large fruit (8. 0g), with large seeds and a deep maroon color. ^[3]

Discovery

It was first cultivated on Rudolph Boysen's farm in northern California. Rudolph Boysen ( July 14, 1895 &mdash November 25, 1950) was a Horticulturist who created the Boysenberry, a hybrid between California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Walter Knott was the first to commercially cultivate it in southern California. Walter Marvin Knott ( December 11, 1887 – December 3, 1981) was an American Farmer who created the Knott's Berry ^[4] His family's small restaurant and pie business eventually grew into Knott's Berry Farm. Knott's Berry Farm is a brand name of two separate entities in the United States: a Theme park in Buena Park California, and a manufacturer of food

In the late 1920s, George M. Darrow of the USDA began tracking down reports it had encountered of a large, reddish-purple berry that had been grown on a farm by a man named Rudolph Boysen. George M Darrow (1889-1983 was known as the foremost American authority on strawberries worked for the United States Department of Agriculture ( USDA-ARS) for forty-six ^[4] He enlisted the help of Walter Knott, a Southern California farmer who was known as a berry expert. Knott hadn't heard of the new berry, but he agreed to help Darrow in his search for the berry.

Knott's Berry Farm

The gates at Knott's Berry Farm feature boysenberries

Darrow and Knott learned soon after that Rudolph Boysen had abandoned his growing experiments several years earlier and sold his farm. Undaunted by this news, Darrow and Knott headed out to Boysen's old farm, on which they found several frail vines surviving in a field choked with weeds. They transplanted the vines to Knott's farm where he nurtured them back to fruit-bearing health. Walter Knott's began selling the berries at his farm stand in 1935 and soon noticed that people kept returning to buy the large tasty berries. When asked what they were called, Knott said, "Boysenberries," after their originator. ^[5] As their popularity grew, Mrs. Knott began making preserves which ultimately made Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California world famous. Buena Park is a city located in northwestern Orange County California.

References

1. ^ Boysenberry Characteristics. Oregon Raspberry and Blackberry Commission. Retrieved on 2008-02-22. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne
2. ^ What is a Boysenberry?. Retrieved on 2008-02-22. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne
3. ^ Oregon's Raspberries and Blackberries. Retrieved on 2008-02-22. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne
4. ^ ^{a b} Oregon's Raspberries and Blackberries - History. Retrieved on 2008-02-22. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne
5. ^ Knott's Berry Farms History. Retrieved on 2008-02-22. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne