GENERAL METHODS OF WORK 



apricot, all three the accomplishment of what 

 had been said to be an impossibility; a plum 

 with no pit, one with the flavor of a Bartlett 

 pear, one having a rare fragrance, many plums 

 of great value, rapidly replacing older varie- 

 ties ; a walnut with a shell so thin that the birds 

 visited the branches and destroyed the nuts, 

 necessitating the reversion of the process to 

 make the shell of the right thickness; a 

 walnut bred with no tannin in its meat, the 

 coloring matter of the skin which has a dis- 

 agreeable taste; a tree which grows more 

 rapidly than any other tree ever known in the 

 temperate zones of the world; the Shasta 

 daisy, a blossom five to seven inches in diame- 

 ter, made out of a wild field daisy, a Japanese 

 and an English daisy; gladioli of greatly 

 enhanced beauty, taught to bloom around 

 their entire stem like a hyacinth instead of 

 the old way, on one side; a dahlia with its 

 disagreeable odor driven out and in its place 

 the odor of the magnolia blossom ; a lily with 

 fragrance of the Parma violet, and a scentless 

 verbena given the intensified fragrance of the 

 trailing arbutus; a chestnut tree which bears 

 nuts in eighteen months from time of seed- 



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