LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 3 



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Strawberries Showing Variation ... 28 



A Typical Stoneless Plum 38 



Double Seeds Sometimes Take the Place 



OF A Stone 44 



The Original and the Finished Product 56 



A Sixteen- Year-Old "Royal" Walnut . . 62 



Wood of the "Royal" Walnut .... 66 

 "Paradox" Walnut Wood Two Inches in 



Diameter Each Year 70 



Variation in Hybrid Walnut Leaves . . 76 



Hybrid Walnuts 80 



A Grafted Walnut Tree 84 



A Typical Plant of Giant Winter Rhubarb 92 



Ready for Shipment 106 



The Giant Cherry 116 



The Abundance Cherry 128 



The Sugar Prune and Its Parents ... 140 



A Luscious Fruit .... :.: :., . .., 150 



Potato Seed Balls ....... 168 



Leaves of Strawberry-Raspberry Hybrids 174 



Complete Kit of Pollenizing Tools . . 188 



One of the Oriental Pears 194 



American Pears with Blended Heredities 198 



Ten Corn Variations 202 



Corn Teosinte Hybrids Seventeen Feet 



High 206 



Corn Self - Pollinated and Crossed with 



Teosinte 210 



Some Stems of Blackberry-Raspberry Hy- 

 brids 218 



A Shirley Poppy — Showing Reproductive 



Organs 230 



