NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
on fertile soil or barren soil. The branches are 
so closely packed at bearing time that there is 
no room for leaves, only a solid compact 
mass of fruit. 
But a more wonderful plum than any of 
these has been made by Mr. Burbank, a plum 
without pit. This plum has not been placed 
upon the market because not entirely finished, 
though the pit has been bred out of it. For 
about two centuries there had been growing 
in France a tiny plum, so called, with only a 
suggestion of a pit. Mr. Burbank took this 
plum, bred it with other plums to increase 
its size and beauty, and injected into it a rich 
new life. Years passed by in the testing, and 
at last the pit of the large luscious plum which 
was the result of the years of breeding has 
disappeared. It only remains now a matter of 
time to breed the pits from all plums and 
prunes and leave in their places so much more 
room for rich, nutritious food. More than one 
skeptical person, numbering among them 
some prominent scientists of Europe and 
America, has stood beside one of the many 
trees which bear these stoneless plums upon 
Mr. Burbank’s proving grounds at Sebastopol 
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