NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
new fruit, adding much to the dietary of the 
nations, but in this, and a number of similar 
instances, he has opened the way to an indefi- 
nite extension of the same principle—the crea- 
tion of fruits which shall supplant or supple- 
ment old ones. Indeed there are now opened 
in many lines of plant life, by this demonstra- 
tion of the feasibility of creating new species, 
possibilities whose scope is limitless. 
‘The plumcot by some might still be pro- 
nounced only a variation or combination of 
similar species,—though, as will be seen later, 
even this objection will not lie against the 
primus berry and the phenomenal berry. And 
yet, when two such absolutely different, even 
if allied, fruits as the plum and the apricot 
are bred together, producing a third and abso- 
lutely new fruit, it is quite difficult to see 
wherein this is not a new and distinct species. 
This new fruit is not only delightful to the 
taste but it is very interesting in its character. 
Sometimes the flesh will be yellow, sometimes 
pink, sometimes white or crimson. Sometimes 
it has pits like the apricot, sometimes like the 
plum. The fruit is highly colored, maintain- 
ing the prevailing hues of the apricot. The 
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