FUZZY PEACHES AND SMOOTH- 

 SKINNED NECTARINES 



Two FRUITS WHICH BEG FOR MORE IMPROVEMENT 



MR. BURBANK," said a visitor, "you have 

 taken the thorns off the blackberry bush 

 and the spines from the cactus. Now 

 why can't you take the fuzz off the peach? 



"Most of us don't deal much with blackberry 

 briers or with cactuses, spiny or otherwise; but 

 we all eat peaches, and a good many of us would 

 about as willingly bite into a spiny cactus as a 

 fuzzy peach. If you will only take the wool off 

 this otherwise perfect fruit, we will raise a monu- 

 ment to you by popular subscription." 



"But nature took the wool off the peach some 

 thousands of years before you and I were born," 

 I answered; "and I have not heard of any monu- 

 ments being erected in commemoration of the 

 event." 



"What in the world do you mean? A fuzzless 

 peach who ever heard of such a thing?" 



[VOLUME IV CHAPTER V] 



