NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
beautiful in form and color and everlasting, 
but it is fadeless and will not be injured by 
handling. One of the largest millinery manu- 
facturing firms in the world purchased the 
flower. Mr. Burbank makes note of the fact 
that there are other flowers of this kind sus- 
ceptible of like improvement. 
Fifteen years ago Mr. Burbank, taking into 
account the fact that the quince can be grown 
with probably less expense than any other 
fruit and that it had never occupied the place 
which he thought it should occupy, set about 
its improvement. It is said that some of the 
choicest so-called quince jellies on the market 
have been made from the refuse of apples, 
pears and other fruits brought up to the imita- 
tion of the quince flavor by judicious doctor- 
ing. The quince itself had long been neg- 
lected by fruit-raisers, and, at its best, was 
an inferior fruit compared with other fruits. 
The “pineapple” quince was the outcome of 
all the years of work upon this fruit, a quince 
which, as Mr. Burbank says, “will cook as 
tender in five minutes as the best of cooking 
apples and with a quince flavor not before 
equaled. Jelly made from it is pronounced 
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