THE NEW WORK 



brilliant curious flowers of the numerous spe- 

 cies always objects of admiration. To see it 

 prone upon the earth not more than six or 

 eight inches high, growing in long rows, with 

 the pruning shears severely cutting it down, is 

 to receive an altogether different impression 

 of this really wonderful plant. 



Mr. Burbank now has a great number of 

 hybrid passion-flowers raised from thousands 

 of seedlings of selected varieties, and the early 

 promise of adding a list of improved varieties 

 of most delicious fruit, should just the proper 

 combination and blending be effected, is now 

 being fulfilled. It will be some little time 

 before his new edible passion-flowers will be 

 on the market, but enough has been already 

 accomplished to assure success. It is of inter- 

 est to note that some new varieties of the pas- 

 sion-flower never before known, and not even 

 classified by botanists, are among the ones on 

 which he is working in building up the new 

 fruit. 



Not ready for announcement are several 

 absolutely new fruits upon which he has been 

 at work for years, promising some singularly 

 interesting and important results. An entirely 



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