Identifier: historyofsonomac02greg (find matches)
Title: History of Sonoma County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county, who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present time
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Gregory, Thomas Jefferson. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Los Angeles, Cal., Historic record company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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new creation that Mr. Burbank should offer,no matter what the cost. Unique as well as wonderful are the things this man frequently does amonghis plant-plots. It is an old (color) gag that a blackberry is green whenit is red—red when it is green—green and red when it is black, but Burbankhas made the blackberry white. It took years and sixty-five thousand hybridvines to dim the jetty tintings of nearly fifty-five centuries, but one at lastproduced the white berry. The pineapple—exotic of the tropic jungle—he hascrossed the zones into the northern quince, and now the new pineapple-quincegives promise of being the chief jelly-fruit of the orchard. One would imagine-that the rose—the empress of flowers, Flora in all her royal grandeur—is in-capable of change or re-creation, but the young Burbank Rose rivals her older sis-ters born when Eden burst into bloom. She will blossom when the plant is in tinyinfancy, and if the days are not too cold will flower all the year around. She
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HISTORY OF SONOMA COUNTY 213 is the first out of winter-quarters, is rose-pink in color shading from the center,-is three inches in diameter, and was hardly out of her nursery till she won agold medal—St. Louis Fair, 1904. He has given our dahlia the only featurelong required to .complete her list of perfections—a perfume, and the verbenaunder his tutelage exhales the odor of the trailing arbutus; while the scentlesscalla lily gives off the rare fragrance of the Parma violet. In the mountainsof Bulgaria about two-and-one-half acres of red roses will yield each seasonan average of 6,600 pounds of petals from which is extracted 2.2 pounds of roseattar. This sells in the English market for a price equal to $7 or $8 an ounce.The United States consumes about $8,000,000 worth of perfumes yearly, andwhen our florists are breeding and harvesting the native flowers for the volatileoils in which they hold their rare, sweet fragrance, we will have no further usefor the odors of Araby the Ble

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