LUTHER BURBANK 
as if out loud, and a self defiant attitude as if 
bespeaking an ample ability to take care of 
themselves. 
“And the flowers which came from the bulbs 
produced by the other banker were charmingly 
delicate—not hardy, but rather shrinkingly artis- 
tic—not loud in their color schemes, but softly 
alluring with their subdued hues.” 
It costs money to ship oranges, so the more the 
meat and the less the rind, the less we waste in 
transportation charges. 
A comparison of the wild orange with the 
cultivated fruit of our orange groves shows how 
this fruit has adapted itself to our ideas of 
economy. 
Lettuce in the head makes a more appetizing 
salad than lettuce in large, sprawling leaves. 
A comparison between wild lettuce and the 
head lettuce on cur green grocer’s stand shows 
plant adaptation to our salad demands. 
And so with celery, and artichokes—and every 
plant that is grown for the market—wild, its adap- 
tations are toward meeting wild environments; 
cultivated, its adaptations are toward fitting itself 
into our routine of life. 
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