NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
almond crosses, raised from seeds. The great 
difference between seedlings is shown in this 
row. One peach-almond tree is six to seven 
inches in diameter at the base, with branches 
running from two to four inches thick where 
they leave the trunk. The tree is perhaps 
twenty feet high, with a large spread of 
branches. Directly alongside are several peach 
seedlings of the same age. Their trunks are 
not thicker than the branches of the other tree 
and they are not over six feet in height. They 
are poor and scant of foliage as compared with 
the others. The peach-almond combination 
generally produces a pit-nut, so to call it, 
which has the outside character of a peach pit, 
and inside the thin inner shell of the almond. 
Sometimes the flesh of the hybrid fruit that 
has come from the cross has been too thin, 
sometimes there has been too much stone. 
The final results of this cross will be looked 
for with great interest. 
Many other combinations have been made. 
No one may tell what inter-combination of 
these crosses might have accomplished if the 
breeding and selection had been pushed fur- 
ther. But when Mr. Burbank finds that a 
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