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sugar prune ripens earlier and is of im¬ 
mense commercial value. 
Burbank is also the maker of the seed¬ 
less plum, which he accomplished by 
crossing two varieties of the Primus 
triflora. 
The white blackberry is another of 
the wizard of horticulture’s triumphs. 
Sixty-five thousand bushes were used in 
test before he developed this phenom¬ 
enon. 
He has given to the arid deserts a new 
species of grass which will grow on the 
plains without water. He converted the 
cactus into an edible plant. The wild 
potato of South America also received 
his attention. Erom a single eye of this 
potato he developed I20 hybridizations 
and grew a large tuber of good quality. 
Mr. Burbank has made endless experi¬ 
ments with the potato. He keeps on his 
farm at Santa Rosa no less than io,ooo 
varieties for experimental purposes. He 
has grown potatoes of every shape and 
color, round, long, short, square, pure 
white, pink, crimson, purple and yellow. 
Burbank potato seedlings have been 
shipped all over the world. The late 
Cecil Rhodes planted io,ooo of his seed¬ 
less plum trees in South Africa, and now 
they have multiplied into the millions. 
“1 worked seventeen years to produce 
a raspberry free from all thorns — with¬ 
out a pricker in it or a particle of rusty 
brown, ” he said. 
Mr. Burbank has eliminated the fuzzi¬ 
ness and acid from the quince—in fact 
there is hardly a fruit or vegetable that 
has not been experimented upon by Mr. 
Burbank, sometimes to their improve¬ 
ment, sometimes unsatisfactorily. In 
the floral world he has ennobled many 
flowers. 
He has grown a crimson poppy, a 
Shasta or larger growth of the ox-eye 
daisy, and he has prgbduced various new 
colors of roses, notably his latest, the blue 
rose. These results in plant life are ob¬ 
tained through selection and crossing. 
He implants the pollen of one upon the 
stigma of the other. He gathers his 
selections from all over the world, and 
when the cross produces a seed he plants 
it, and experiments until he secures the 
desired result. 
A strawberry is crossed with a black¬ 
berry, or one of a species with another. 
Sometimes thousands of plants will grow 
i when but one develops the ideal desired. 
From 300,000 apple tree seedlings but 
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