The Spineless Cactus 
"Some qualities Nature carefully fixes and transmits, but some, and those the liner, 
she exhales with the breath of the individual as too costly to perpetuate. But I notice 
also that they may become fixed and permanent in any stock, by painting and repaint- 
ing them on every individual, until at last Nature adopts them and bakes them into her 
porcelain." — Emerson. 
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One of Burbank's Absolutely Spineless Cactus Plants, Two Years Old from Cutting. 
