. Evolution and animal life; an elementary discussion of facts, processes, laws and theories relating to the life and evolution of animals . FIG. 60.—Seedlings of one kind of hybrid plum: colors almost black, deep crimson,light crimson, scarlet, deep yellow, and shades of orange and yellow, green striped,spotted and speckled; long and short stems; sweet, sour, bitter, good, bad, andindifferent, firm and soft; flesh, yellow, white, pink, red, crimson, striped, ; stones of various shapes and sizes, large, small, oval, round, of differentcolors, some clingstones, some freestones; foliag
. Evolution and animal life; an elementary discussion of facts, processes, laws and theories relating to the life and evolution of animals . FIG. 60.—Seedlings of one kind of hybrid plum: colors almost black, deep crimson,light crimson, scarlet, deep yellow, and shades of orange and yellow, green striped,spotted and speckled; long and short stems; sweet, sour, bitter, good, bad, andindifferent, firm and soft; flesh, yellow, white, pink, red, crimson, striped, ; stones of various shapes and sizes, large, small, oval, round, of differentcolors, some clingstones, some freestones; foliage varying as much as the rest, andgrowth from short and stalky and dwarf to rampant exuberance. (.Photograph byBui-bank; about one-quarter diameter.) ARTIFICIAL SELECTION 95 Among these may especially be mentioned besides thePrimus already spoken of, the Iceberg, a cross-bred whiteblackberry derived from a hybridization of the Crystal White(pistillate parent) with the Lawton (staminate parent), with. FIG. 61.—Seedlings of the Japanese quince, Pyrus Juponica: colors, orange yellow, oralmost white, with crimson dots and splashes. (From photograph by Burbank.) 96 EVOLUTION AND ANIMAL LIFE beautiful snowy-white berries so nearly transparent that thesmall seeds may be seen in them; the Japanese Golden May-berry, a cross of the Japanese R. palmatus (with small, tasteless,dingy yellow, worthless berries) and the Cuthbert, the hybridgrowing into treelike bushes, six to eight feet high, and bearing-great, sweet, golden, semitranslucent berries which ripen beforestrawberries; the Paradox, an oval, light-red berry, obtained inthe fourth generation from a cross of Ciystal White Blackberryand Shaffers Colossal Raspberry. While most of the plantsfrom this cross are partly or wrholly barren, this particular out-come is an unusually prolific fruit producer. An interesting feature of Mr. Burbanks brief account, in his
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