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Show BURBANK AND WIFE GIVE WORLD SEVEN NEW PLANT WONDERS Oats Without ! Hulls Latest I Wizard Gifti New Wini er trass Said to ( hiarani ee Q reeii Peed Ml A'mtpr for 1 A estock j B GiEKE CX1IN. CAXTA ROSA. Cal . Jan 21. -J Seven wonders qf tho jdant world are Luther Burbank's 192 contributions to horticultural science. Topping the list as an agricultural agricul-tural innovation of Inestimable importance is the "Opaline," an oat thut hulls out like wheat when threshed and, Instead of weighing 45 pounds to the bushel, weighs 60. This result. Burbank explains, ex-plains, has been accomplished through the practical elimination of husk With incidental benefit to the grain Itself. Kor some seasons he bus been working n the "hullcss oat" and it is considered one of his great contributions to American farmers.. farm-ers.. Mis six other "wonders ' he Iist6 j as follows Peruvian winter grass, which can withstand frosts and produce an enormous amount of feed during dur-ing i he told winter months, thus insuring green feed for rattle. A mammoth flowering artichoke, arti-choke, with flowers a lovely as roses and several time as lurge. A "prickly poppy," known as the Mariposa which grows spines as does a cactus. A Brazilian tomato-like fruit, with thorny ph'nt. but bearing an orange colored product which has much ( the taste of the tomato. A ' sii per-sweef corn of 12 rowed variety which Burbank declares de-clares to be the sweetest corn over perfected. The "orange sunJerry,' something some-thing new and having the. flavor of the huckleberry and blueberry. Thrfee minor creation include a lemon-colored hybiscus, the "molten fire" flower and a new dwarf sunflower. In all of his recent experiments experi-ments Burbank ins been aided by his youiig wife, who i as interested inter-ested in gardening ventures as the wizard himself on LUTHER BURBANK nn ins win n lis him i his PIANT I PERIMENTS. |