NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
for example, has been built up very largely 
upon one or two of his plums. The plums 
introduced by a few trees in a region which 
was by nature and climate suited to them 
rapidly increased as growers saw their good 
points, until they became the center of a 
packing and shipping industry employing 
thousands of people in the growing and 
preparation of the fruit. 
Something of the wide-reaching influence 
of the new plums is seen in the fact that 
several of them are now being extensively 
cultivated on the island of Borneo, supplant- 
ing largely the native fruits of this type and 
promising to revolutionize the fruit culture 
of the island. They are also shipped from 
Borneo to surrounding countries. The late 
Cecil Rhodes became so much interested in 
the work of Mr. Burbank that he ordered 
some plum grafts for his extensive fruit ranch 
near Cape Town. One day several years 
afterward, a consignment of the plums which 
grew from these cuttings was shipped 18,000 
miles by steamer and rail from Cape Town 
to San Francisco, as a test, arriving after their 
long journey in prime condition. From many 
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