NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



almond crosses, raised from seeds. The great 

 difference between seedlings is shown in this 

 row. One peach-almond tree is six to seven 

 inches in diameter at the base, with branches 

 running from two to four inches thick where 

 they leave the trunk. The tree is perhaps 

 twenty feet high, with a large spread of 

 branches. Directly alongside are several peach 

 seedlings of the same age. Their trunks are 

 not thicker than the branches of the other tree 

 and they are not over six feet in height. They 

 are poor and scant of foliage as compared with 

 the others. The peach-almond combination 

 generally produces a pit-nut, so to call it, 

 which has the outside character of a peach pit, 

 and inside the thin inner shell of the almond. 

 Sometimes the flesh of the hybrid fruit that 

 has come from the cross has been too thin, 

 sometimes there has been too much stone. 

 The final results of this cross will be looked 

 for with great interest. 



Many other combinations have been made. 

 No one may tell what inter-combination of 

 these crosses might have accomplished if the 

 breeding and selection had been pushed fur- 

 ther. But when Mr. Burbank finds that a 



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