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Of oourte plums that present this anomaly 

 cannot be propagated from the seed. But ir 

 this regard they do not differ from a number 

 of cultivated plants, the banana and the sugar 

 cane, aod many others. And for that matter 

 uust be recalled that very few ordianl 

 fruits are reproduced from the teed. Tli 

 favorite varieties of apples and pears are so 

 blended that they do not breed true from **^ * 

 seed. If you were to plant the seed ot a Bale 

 apple, a Bartlett peai. Sugar prune, thert 



is only the remotest chance that you woul 

 produce a seedling that would resemble the 

 parent. 



Vet apples and pears and prunes are prop- 

 agated year after year by means of buds and 

 grafts. The same method of propagation would 

 of course suffice for seedless plums. 



It would still be potaible, however, to produce 

 new varieties of seedless plums by using tlu' 

 pollen of these varieties to fertilize the flowei 

 of other plums that were stoneless but 

 seedless. 



The seedlings from such a cross would tend 

 to vary in successive generations, as all bybrici 

 do. A certain number of tlie offspring of the 

 second and later generations would doubtless be 

 seedless, and it would thus be possible to develop 



