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In addition he has transformed the plum and has made a 

 combined fruit from the plum and the apricot. He has taken 

 the old-fashioned wild daisy of New England, has combined 

 it with daisies from Japan and England, and has secured the 

 lovely Shasta daisy, which has no rival. He has taken the 

 thorn-covered cactus of the deserts of the West, has removed 

 the thorns for future generations, and has made the plant 



THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLUM 



The two larger ones are seedlings of the other two. (From " New Creations in 

 Plant Life," by W. S. Harwood. Published by The Macmillan Company) 



useful to man and beast alike. No limit can be set to the 

 value of this single transformation. 



The list of what Mr. Burbank has helped nature to do 

 might be made much longer. In each case, however, he 

 merely did the guiding ; nature did the work according to 

 laws of its own. The same is true of changes brought about 

 in animal life. 



Take sheep, for example. Some are liked because they 

 are hornless, some for the quality of mutton they supply, 

 some for the long, soft wool they grow. Knowing what was 



