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these years delight in plants for other reason than for 

 the mere fact of food supply. 



There is doubtless no element in human environment 

 which brings to men generally so much delight as color. 

 The savage races delight in it, as we all know, and with 

 a piece of red calico you may buy in Africa the most 

 precious possessions of a whole tribe. Nor less do civil- 

 ized men enjoy the same sensation. How flat are all 

 our photographic effects and how we long for some 

 color-photographic process which shall enable us to cap- 

 ture the brilliant tints of the natural world. Nature 

 gave us to behold blue skies, emerald seas, the rainbow's 

 lovely form, the gilding that makes rich the evening sky, 

 the splendor, the indescribable splendor that glorifies the 



Burbank and California, and with similar results, so far as the 

 plants are concerned. 



"Moreover, there are a kind of Abricots come from a forraine 

 nation, and they be called thereupon Armeniaca, which alone for 

 their smell also, are commendable. But there is a peculiar braverie 

 and a shameless, which those Plums have by themselves that are 

 grafted in Nut-tree stocks; they retaine the face and forme still 

 of the mother grafte, but they get the tast of the stocke wherein 

 they are set, as it were by way of adoption: of them both they 

 carrie the name, and are called Nut-plums. 



"It is not long since, that in the realme of Granado and Anda- 

 lusia, they began to grafte plums upon apple-tree stocks, and 

 those brought forth Plums named Apple-plums: as also others 

 called Almond-plums, grafted upon Almond stocks; these have 

 within their stone a kernell like an Almond: and verily there is 

 not a fruit againe wherein is seene a wittier devise to conjoyne 

 and represent in one and the same subject, two divers sorts." 

 From Chapter XIII., The fifteenth Booke of Plinies Naturall 

 Historic, translated by Philemon Holland, 1601, p. 437. Pliny 

 died A. D. 79! 



