ON THE POSSIBILITIES 
products by curbing their useless ones, that it 
would not be possible to list them here. 
But, aside from these, and in the same category, 
there are countless other new improvements to 
be wrought. 
The stoneless plum points the way to a new 
world of fruits in which the stony or shell-like 
covering of the seeds has been bred away. 
The coreless apple, pear and quince, with 
sheathless seeds growing compactly near the top, 
out of the way—these are all within the range of 
accomplishment. 
Seedless raspberries, blackberries, gooseber- 
ries, currants, with the energy saved reinvested 
in added size or better flavor, call for some one 
to bring them about. Seedless grapes we have had 
for more than a century; yet by a certain cross 
which Mr. Burbank will suggest in the grape 
chapter, he believes that they can be doubled in 
size and much improved in flavor. Seedless figs, 
even, might be made, but these could be counted 
no improvement; for the seeds of the fig give the 
fruit its flavor. 
Seedless watermelons might mean more work 
than the result would repay, but navel water- 
melons, with seeds arranged as in the navel orange, 
would, likely enough, yield a result commensurate 
with the effort required to produce them. 
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