NEW CREATIONS. 



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but, for certain purposes and with certain classes, it has well 

 nigh driven the seed-bearing kind out of the field of competi- 

 tion. It seems to be a fixed law that in the development of 

 seedlessness any membrane found in the body of the fruit, such 

 as that forming seed pockets and segmental divisions, either 

 gets to be so tender as to become negligable or disappears en- 



CHAPTER VI., FIG. 56. SPENCER SEEDLESS APPLE SECTIONAL VIEW. 



tirely. Thus, in Webber's new creation, the citrange, the mem- 

 brane is exceedingly tender and is evidently in process of 

 obliteration. This means the removal of an indigestible sub- 

 stance from an otherwise edible pulp ; it means, therefore, a 

 more healthful fruit ; and it means a more economic fruit, since 

 in the preparation of a seed-bearing variety for human food 

 there is much waste matter to be removed and time and labor 



