NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



beautiful in form and color and everlasting, 

 but it is fadeless and will not be injured by 

 handling. One of the largest millinery manu- 

 facturing firms has contracted to buy the 

 flower. Mr. Burbank makes note of the fact 

 that there are other flowers of this kind sus- 

 ceptible of like improvement. 



Fifteen years ago Mr. Burbank, taking into 

 account the fact that the quince can be grown 

 with probably less expense than any other 

 fruit and that it had never occupied the place 

 which he thought it should occupy, set about 

 its improvement. It is said that some of the 

 choicest so-called quince jellies on the market 

 have been made from the refuse of apples, 

 pears and other fruits brought up to the imita- 

 tion of the quince flavor by judicious doctor- 

 ing. The quince itself had long been neg- 

 lected by fruit-raisers, and, at its best, was 

 an inferior fruit compared with other fruits. 



The "pineapple" quince was the outcome of 

 all the years of work upon this fruit, a quince 

 which, as Mr. Burbank says, "will cook as 

 tender in five minutes as the best of cooking 

 apples and with a quince flavor not before 

 equaled, Jelly made from it is pronounced 



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