LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
FACING 
Potatoes growing upon a tomato vine after grafting upon 
the potato root . - - ; 
Aérial potatoes growing upon a nae cion grafted upon a 
tomato plant . . F - i 
A rare two-petaled hybrid seedling lily 
The plumcot, created from the plum and apricot. A rare 
new fruit . z : . . 
The ‘‘Climax,” one of the rarest plums produced . 
The development of the plum. The two larger ones are 
seedlings of the other two 
The Giant plum, not only of largest size but of great rich- 
ness and prolific in bearing . : 
The sugar prune,— larger, sweeter, earlier and more pro- 
ductive than the older prunes 
One of the many rows of seedling Shasta daisies from 
which selection is being made. The rows are seven 
hundred feet long 
One of the ‘‘ Shasta” daisies. The blossoms are from four 
to six inches in diameter 
Fluted daisies, one of the many curious forms developed 
in the production of the Shasta daisies 
What the thornless cactus will displace —a hint of desert 
conditions . ‘i z é 
The cactus in the foreground is the ordinary thorny kind. 
Those in the rear are the thornless ones of the same 
species : , é . 
Cactus tests.—Thornless, hybrid seedling Opuntias, now 
eight weeks old from seed. They will be transplanted 
later, after rigid selection 2 3 
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