NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



of no danger. These six are creations ; let this 

 be clearly set forth, new plants, actually made 

 by Mr. Burbank from material never com- 

 bined before, the product of his brain and 

 hand, plants different from any ever created 

 before by man or nature, set forward for the 

 enrichment of the race. >^ 



f Briefly noted, they are the " Santa Rosa," 

 producing leaves more rapidly than any other 

 cactus plant Mr. Burbank has had in his 

 whole collection wild or cultivated, the leaves 

 often two feet long by ten inches wide, pro- 

 ducing in three years from the seed a plant 

 six feet high, six and one-half feet across, with 

 seventy-one huge leaves; the " Sonoma," pro- 

 ducing leaves very rapidly and thicker than 

 any of the others; the "California," quite simi- 

 lar to the "Sonoma"; the "Fresno," a cross- 

 bred seedling wholly unlike its parents and, 

 though but two years old, having leaves eigh- 

 teen inches long by eight wide; the "Monte- 

 rey," the most rapid-growing of its class 

 (Tapuna) with nearly circular leaves, thick and 

 ten or twelve inches across in yearling plants ; 

 the "Chico," especially strong in fat and starch 

 content. 



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