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combining the qualities of the two parent forms. 

 Just what the result will be cannot be known until 

 the seedlings are old enough to bear fruit, which, 

 if they are properly grafted, will be in their 

 second or third year. Then surprises will be in 

 store for you. Not even Mr. Burbank himself 

 could predict what the new fruit may be like in 

 a given case. But it is certain to be something 

 different from either parent a new form of plant 

 life that you have brought into being by combining 

 different racial strains. 



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