THE MAN AND HIS WORK 



tinent, or for that matter round the world. Here 

 is one plum that looks and tastes like an apple 

 and another that has precisely the quality of a 

 Bartlett pear. And here are plums and prunes 

 that while exteriorly looking like other fine speci- 

 mens of their kind differ essentially from all 

 others in that you could bite right through them 

 as you bite through a strawberry, because they 

 are stoneless. 



And then, most marvelous of all, here is a fruit 

 that had a plum for one of its ancestors, but for 

 another ancestor an apricot; a strange hybrid 

 which, in recognition of its origin, was named the 

 "plumcot" and which constitutes a brand-new 

 type of orchard fruit, the first addition that has 

 been made to the familiar list within historical 

 times, and the only orchard fruit whose origin is 

 definitely known. This one was created at Se- 

 bastopol, as the result of a long series of tests 

 in cross-pollenizing the plum and apricot; tests 

 which at first seemed doomed to failure, but which 

 ultimately culminated in the production of a won- 

 derful new fruit. 



In the small-fruit garden, Mr. Burbank has de- 

 veloped many highly interesting new forms, some 

 of which are entitled to rank as new species. 

 There is, for example, the Primus berry, a cross 

 between the dewberry and the Siberian rasp- 

 berry; the Phenomenal berry, a cross between 

 the dewberry and the Cuthbert raspberry; and 

 the Paradox, a cross between the Lawton black- 

 berry and the crystal white blackberry. 



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