NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
planting; fruit trees which will withstand freez- 
ing in bud and flower; a poppy so increased 
in size that it measures ten inches across its 
brilliant bloom; an amaryllis bred up from 
two to three inches to nearly a foot in diam- 
eter; a calla increased in size until it measures 
ten to twelve inches in breadth, and then, the 
process being reversed, bred down to less than 
two inches; the white blackberry, a rare and 
beautiful fruit and as toothsome as beautiful; 
thousands of varieties of lilies. He has greatly 
improved the plums, pears, apples, cherries, 
grapes, quinces and peaches by selection and 
breeding; has developed many varieties of 
flowers, improving them in color, hardiness 
and yield; and has added much to the pro- 
ductiveness and edibility of vegetables. Pie- 
plant with leaves four feet in diameter, bearing 
every day in the year; a prune three or four 
times larger than the ordinary French prune 
and greatly enriched; the pomato, an improve- 
ment on the poisonous potato ball, producing 
arare fruit which grows upon the top of a 
potato; blackberries without thorns; the im- 
proved Australian star flower, one of the 
everlasting varieties which is to be used for 
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