PLUMS AND PRUNES 
occasionally an ill-assorted, rusty, unmarket- 
able product. And, revolutionary as it may at 
first thought appear, there is no good reason 
for permanently producing poor fruit; for in 
time new trees will be produced which will 
produce good fruit with the utmost regularity 
and precision. Of course, there never can be 
one variety which will be the best for all 
purposes, but it is perfectly possible to produce 
varieties which, for their own special use, can 
be relied upon to yield full crops of the best 
fruits without fail; all this must be done by 
careful selection and breeding. 
“It has been said that it were better for a 
man that a millstone be hung around his neck 
and that he be cast into the sea than that he 
should introduce a fruit or flower which should 
prove to be of no value. In the introduction 
of a fruit or flower, no one who has not been 
through the experience can fully appreciate 
the sense of responsibility, and no one can 
more deeply lament a failure than the 
introducer.” 
It will be of interest to note here some of 
the more prominent among the plums and 
prunes which M1. Burbank has produced: 
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