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results in comparing and testing new plants. The rest of the land is a mixture of sand and 

 clay — mostly sand — which he finds very suitable for testing fruits. 



"After repeated experiments Mr. Burhank had almost concluded that the common 

 garden Bean would not cross with the Lima ; but at last success crowned Ins efforts, and he 

 obtained a pod of four beans by fertilizing the old Horticultural Pole Bean with Lima 

 pollen, though the form and color of the variety were not changed. When the cotyledons 

 appeared, however, from one-third to two-thirds of the upper end of each of the Beans bore 

 the markings characteristic of Lima Beans, while the lower parts had the peculiar markings 

 of the Horticultural Pole. The edges of the divisions, like those of uncongenial grafts in 

 trees, were rough and serrated. As the plants grew they were naturally watched with great 

 interest. After a week or more the separation became complete, the upper or Lima parts 

 dropping off, the plants bearing the usual form of Horticultural Poles. Among the curi- 

 osities in his grounds are white Beans which almost invariably produce black ones, and vice 

 versa. F'rom a cross of two varieties of average growth, some produced vines twenty feet or 

 more in height ; while others in the same lot were so dwarfed that all the pods had to grow 

 horizontally, as otherwise they would have pierced the ground. 



" Mr. Burbank writes us that the results of some of his experiments are as surprising to 

 himself as they are likely to be to others ; but just at present he is not in a position to make 

 them known." — Rural New Yorker. 



"The sketch only alludes to a few of Mr. Burbank's achievements; others have 

 already been described in the Rural, and others will be as their results are attained. 

 Mr. Burbank is fortunately a young man working amid the most favorable conditions of 

 soil and climate, and full of ambition and strength. It is hard to set bounds to work thus 

 favorably circumstanced. It is a matter wdiich will be better understood a generation hence." 

 — Pacific Rural Press. 



