NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



planting; fruit trees which will withstand freez- 

 ing in bud and flower; a poppy so increased 

 in size that it measures ten inches across its 

 brilliant bloom; an amaryllis bred up from 

 two to three inches to nearly a foot in diam- 

 eter; a calla increased in size until it measures 

 ten to twelve inches in breadth, and then, the 

 process being reversed, bred down to less than 

 two inches; the white blackberry, a rare and 

 beautiful fruit and as toothsome as beautiful ; 

 thousands of varieties of lilies. He has greatly 

 improved the plums, pears, apples, cherries, 

 grapes, quinces and peaches by selection and 

 breeding; has developed many varieties of 

 flowers, improving them in color, hardiness 

 and yield; and has added much to the pro- 

 ductiveness and edibility of vegetables. Pie- 

 plant with leaves four feet in diameter, bearing 

 every day in the year; a prune three or four 

 times larger than the ordinary French prune 

 and greatly enriched ; the pomato, an improve- 

 ment on the poisonous potato ball, producing 

 a rare fruit which grows upon the top of a 

 potato; blackberries without thorns; the im- 

 proved Australian star flower, one of the 

 everlasting varieties which is to be used for 



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