THE STONELESS PLUM 59 



new varieties of seedless fruit from a parent 

 stock that is itself incapable of producing viable 

 seed. 



The stoneless hybrids already produced repre- 

 sent almost every color of the plum white, pale 

 yellow, orange, scarlet, crimson, violet, deep blue, 

 almost black, striped, spotted, and variously 

 mottled. They vary indefinitely in quality. 

 Some of them are of abnormal size. They ripen 

 from the middle of June until Thanksgiving. 



So the stoneless plum already constitutes a 

 new race having numberless varieties, and the 

 possibilities of further improvement are limitless. 



In producing seedless fruits we 

 are simply hastening their evolu- 

 tion for the benefit of man. 



