. Experiments with plants. Botany. MAKING NEW KINDS OF PLANTS 413 very dull-colored, small, bitter fruit (see Fig. 233), utterly worthless except for preserving. It has the advantage of growing in all situations, thriving in dry sand or in the soggy soil of swamps, indifferent to cold and frost and wonderfully prolific. By crossing and selection, the good qualities of both parents have been retained and the bad ones. 233. Improved Beach Plum in the tenter. The parents are; Beach Plum on th3 i-ight. an American Plum on the left. Natural size. eliminated. The Improved Beach Plum, as it is called
. Experiments with plants. Botany. MAKING NEW KINDS OF PLANTS 413 very dull-colored, small, bitter fruit (see Fig. 233), utterly worthless except for preserving. It has the advantage of growing in all situations, thriving in dry sand or in the soggy soil of swamps, indifferent to cold and frost and wonderfully prolific. By crossing and selection, the good qualities of both parents have been retained and the bad ones. 233. Improved Beach Plum in the tenter. The parents are; Beach Plum on th3 i-ight. an American Plum on the left. Natural size. eliminated. The Improved Beach Plum, as it is called, bears so abundantly that the fruit almost conceals the wood, as may be readily seen from the photograph (Fig. 234), which represents a branch three and a half feet long. The fruit is shown full size in Fig. 233. It is of a deep purple color, with white dots, with deep yellow flesh and a stone not larger than a cherry-pit. It is a delicious plum of unusually fine fiavor, without a trace of the bitter taste of the Beach Plum. It is indifferent to frost, and grows and bears under the most trying conditions of soil and climate, and will. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Osterhout, Winthrop John Van Leuven, 1871-. New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co. , ltd.
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