MARVELOUS POSSIBILITIES IN 



THE IMPROVEMENT 



OF PLANTS 



General Survey of Some of the Immediate 

 Improvements Needed. 



**Tr HAVE finished making an analysis of a 

 £ number of your fruits," wrote a chemist, 

 "and I find that tannic acid, which no one 

 likes in their fruits, vegetables, nuts, or other 

 food, and which prevents many people from en- 

 joying raw fruit, is almost entirely absent in 

 every case." 



There are other acids, however, which are 

 beautifully blended with grape sugars and other 

 sweet substances and flavors which make our 

 fruits so delightful and so valuable for food. 

 Would it be a small achievement to rebuild our 

 fruits, grains and vegetables so as to add to the 

 health, happiness, and advancement of the 

 human race? 



Such a transformation is one which might 

 easily be wrought in a few years through simple 



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