GENERAL METHODS OF WORK 
apricot, all three the accomplishment of what 
had been said to be an impossibility; a plum 
with no pit, one with the flavor of a Bartlett 
pear, one having a rare fragrance, many plums 
of great value, rapidly replacing older varie- 
ties; a walnut with a shell so thin that the birds 
visited the branches and destroyed the nuts, 
necessitating the reversion of the process to 
make the shell of the right thickness; a 
walnut bred with no tannin in its meat, the 
coloring matter of the skin which has a dis- 
agreeable taste; a tree which grows more 
rapidly than any other tree ever known in the 
temperate zones of the world; the Shasta 
daisy, a blossom five to seven inches in diame- 
ter, made out of a wild field daisy, a Japanese 
and an English daisy; gladioli of greatly 
enhanced beauty, taught to bloom around 
their entire stem like a hyacinth instead of 
the old way, on one side; a dahlia with its 
disagreeable odor driven out and in its place 
the odor of the magnolia blossom; a lily with 
fragrance of the Parma violet, and a scentless 
verbena given the intensified fragrance of the 
trailing arbutus; a chestnut tree which bears 
nuts in eighteen months from time of seed- 
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