Food and flavor, a gastronomic guide to health and good living . at the same time give the Muscatela thicker skin to make it better able to stand transporta-tion to the East. He answered in a letter dated July25, that he was at work on several of the Californiagrapes to give them better flavors, thicker skins, andbetter keeping qualities; and, he added, I assure youthat I am having good success. They are not yet readyto send out. The Newtown Pippin is one of the finest apples, buthe has a descendant of it which is a far better bearerand has an added aromatic fragrance. There areimproved peache
Food and flavor, a gastronomic guide to health and good living . at the same time give the Muscatela thicker skin to make it better able to stand transporta-tion to the East. He answered in a letter dated July25, that he was at work on several of the Californiagrapes to give them better flavors, thicker skins, andbetter keeping qualities; and, he added, I assure youthat I am having good success. They are not yet readyto send out. The Newtown Pippin is one of the finest apples, buthe has a descendant of it which is a far better bearerand has an added aromatic fragrance. There areimproved peaches, too; also, many beautiful flowersnew to the world; but of flowers this is not the place towrite. Is it not strange that this unselfish wonder-worker,whose object is not to make money (except for the pur-pose of enabling him to go on with his experiments),should have met with so much hostility? Yet hedeclares that the greatest inconvenience or injustice hehas met is not misunderstanding, prejudice, envy,jealousy, or ingratitude, but the fact that purchasers. GASTRONOMIC AMERICA 519 are so often deceived by unscrupulous dealers who, mis-using his name, foist upon the public hardy bananas,blue roses, seedless watermelons, and a thousand otherthings, including United States Government thornycactus for the Burbank Thornless. On this point Mr. Burbank has reason to write witha feeling of mingled pride and resentment. In 1896the first scientific experiments for the improvement ofcactus as food for man and beast were made on hisfarms. Eight years later, when these costly experi-ments were crowned with success, the Department ofAgriculture spent $10,000 in searching for a thornlesscactus like those already produced by Mr. result was a failure; the spineless cactus sent outwere not spineless, not safe to handle or feed to stock,while the fruit was seedy and poor. The Burbank improved cactus, on the other hand, isfree not only from the long spines but from the evenmore harm
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