NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



hand- writing is on the wall, and fruit-grow- 

 ers have long since taken note of it: the 

 revolution will be bloodless, but it promises 

 to be complete. 



I was much interested in the statement of a 

 fruit-growei* who had handled one of Mr. Bur- 

 bank's prunes. It was a venture with him, for 

 though nearly one-third richer in sugar than 

 the French prune, much larger, and more pro- 

 lific, it had not turned out the season before 

 so well as he had hoped; though he noted, 

 however, that this may have been in some 

 measure due to the season itself. The impor- 

 tant feature, however, from a commercial 

 point of view was this, that he had simply 

 changed the prune into a plum, selling it by 

 the thousands of cases in the East where, on 

 the New York, Boston and Chicago markets 

 it sold at the head of the list on such days as 

 it was offered for sale. The French prune with 

 which it was competing as a prune had no 

 merit whatever as an eating and shipping 

 plum. 



While the next few years promise still 

 greater returns to the world from Mr. Bur- 

 bank's creations, because at the date of the 



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