FUZZY PEACHES AND 



SMOOTH-SKINNED 



NECTARINES 



Two FRUITS WHICH AWAIT MORE 

 IMPROVEMENT 



"IV/f R * BURBANK >" said a fruitgrower, 

 [VJL "you have taken the thorns off the black- 

 berry bush and the spines from the cactus. 

 Now, why can't you take the fuzz off the peach? 

 "Most of us don't deal much with blackberry 

 briers or with cactuses, spiny or otherwise; but 

 we all eat peaches, and a good many of us would 

 about as willingly bite into one of the old spiny 

 cactus fruits as a fuzzy peach. If you will only 

 take the wool off this otherwise perfect fruit, 

 we will raise a monument to you by popular 

 subscription." 



"But nature took the wool off the peach some 

 thousands of years before you and I were born," 

 I replied; "and I have not heard of any monu- 

 ments being erected in commemoration of the 

 event." 



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