Mrs. Miller's Amish Homemade Loganberry Jam_ 8 oz _3 Jars_

For more than 20 years Mrs. Millers' Homemade Jams has been bringing you delicious homemade jams, jellies and preserves. With more than 50 varieties - hand scooped out of kettles - ranging from their traditional Apple Butter to the ever popular Black Raspberry, to their Sugar Free products, they have a flavor for everyone! Enjoy these home made delights From Mrs. Miller's in Fredericksburg Ohio, USA! The loganberry is an hexaploid hybrid produced from pollination of a plant of the octaploid blackberry cultivar 'Aughinbaugh' by a diploid red raspberry. The plant and the fruit resemble the blackberry more than the raspberry, but the fruit color is a dark red, rather than black as in blackberries. Loganberries are cultivated commercially and by gardeners. The loganberry was derived from a cross between Rubus ursinus 'Aughinbaugh' as the female parent and Rubus idaeus 'Red Antwerp' as the male parent (pollen source). It was accidentally created in 1883 in Santa Cruz, California, by the American lawyer and horticulturist James Harvey Logan (1841–1928). Logan was unsatisfied with the existing varieties of blackberries and tried crossing two varieties of blackberries to produce a superior cultivar. He happened to plant them next to plants of an old variety of red raspberry, 'Red Antwerp', all of which flowered and fruited together. The two blackberry cultivars involved in these experiments were probably 'Aughinburgh' and 'Texas Early' (a cultivar of Rubus velox) which were two of the three varieties that Logan had planted in his yard that year. Logan then gathered and planted the seed from his cross-bred plants. His 50 seedlings produced plants similar to the blackberry parent 'Aughinbaugh', but were larger and more vigorous. One was the Loganberry; the others included the 'Mammoth' blackberry.