NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
disagreeable,—and make its odor a delight. 
It is also possible to combine flowers of 
different odors and produce others unknown 
to the world before. 
But, in addition to all this, it is possible, 
following in Mr. Burbank’s lead, to breed 
flowers with the requisite amount of vola- 
tile oil, as it is called, the oil of the plant 
which enables it to hold its rare sweet scent 
and from which, when taken from the flower, 
the perfume is obtained. There are several 
processes for obtaining the perfume from 
flowers, but their aim is identical,—to iso- 
late and confine the odor in some form of 
fat or oil and then dilute it with alcohol into 
the perfumes we buy at the chemists. 
Breeding corn, for example, so that it 
shall have a certain prescribed amount of 
fat has been accomplished and made prac- 
ticable. Indeed, so completely successful is 
this breeding that corns are prepared with 
a given per cent of fat for animal or human 
food, another per cent for the manufac- 
turer of glucose who wants little fat in his 
corn, another for the manufacturer of corn- 
oil who wants much fat and little starch. 
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