NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
hand-writing is on the wall, and fruit- grow 
ers have long since taken note of it: th 
revolution will be bloodless, but it promise 
to be complete. 
I was much interested in the statement of | 
fruit-grower who had handled one of Mr. Bur 
bank’s prunes. It was a venture with him, fo 
though nearly one-third richer in sugar tha 
the French prune, much larger, and more pro 
lific, it had not turned out the season befor 
so well as he had hoped; though he notec 
however, that this may have been in som 
measure due to the season itself. The impor 
tant feature, however, from a commercis 
point of view was this, that he had simpl 
changed the prune into a plum, selling it b 
the thousands of cases in the East where, o 
the New York, Boston and Chicago market 
it sold at the head of the list on such days < 
it was offered for sale. The French prune wit 
which it was competing as a prune had n 
merit whatever as an eating and shippin 
plum. 
While the next few years promise sti 
greater returns to the world from Mr. Bu: 
bank’s creations, because at the date of tk 
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