NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



which were stored at a local photographer's, 

 escaped without a scratch, only two unimport- 

 ant ones being broken, while the entire stock 

 of the photographer was destroyed in the col- 

 lapse of the building, leaving only a mass of 

 broken glass. Mr. Burbank's negatives were 

 found lying in the debris unharmed. 



Taking a general view of the work under 

 way, it embraces several hundreds of thousands 

 of new hybrid plums out of which some strik- 

 ing results are promised; some eight thousand 

 new hybrid chestnuts made by crossing Ital- 

 ian, Japanese, Chinese and American varieties ; 

 the same number of new hybrid walnuts, 

 blendings of the American black walnut, the 

 Sieboldi, the English walnut, combined with 

 the Manchurian butternut; fully as many 

 thousands of new seedlings of the pineapple 

 quince; thousands of new peach and peach- 

 nectarine crosses; at least ten thousand new 

 hybrid seedling potatoes, some of them very 

 rare, with thousands of plumcots, apricots, 

 cherries, grapes, berries of various kinds and 

 the like, and extensive tests in the line of new 

 and improved grasses, with several thousand 

 cactus plants undergoing tests. 



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