NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



and important information that Mr. Burbank 

 now has growing in his tests fully five thou- 

 sand varieties of stoneless plums all waiting for 

 the final selection of the best, some of them 

 already showing superb quality. This is one 

 of the most important features of the new 

 work in progress. The first announcement of 

 the production of a stoneless plum was strik- 

 ingly interesting from the standpoint of nov- 

 elty, something, to many, hard by the land of 

 miracles, but now the commercial importance 

 of the new plums looms high; for, with the 

 general use of plums and prunes having no 

 stones, this whole department of the world's 

 fruit industry will be changed. These five 

 thousand pitless seedling plums mark a revo- 

 lution, or, better put, an evolution of immense 

 significance. 



It must be borne in mind that in producing 

 a new plum, bringing it up to a final perfected 

 condition, years of time are required, and par- 

 ticularly so when so important a change as this 

 is to be made. Melons, corn, beans and the 

 like, can be brought to test in six months' 

 time, not so with a tree. 



In the line of new fruits, Mr. Burbank has 



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