 Many pages and illustrations were cut from the finished work as he sought to maintain a sense of ambiguity to the story's theme and messages.Included among the deletions in its 17th chapter were references to locales in New York, such as the Rockefeller Center and Long Island.Other deleted pages described the prince's vegetarian diet and the garden on his home asteroid that included beans, radishes, potatoes and tomatoes, but which lacked fruit trees that might have overwhelmed the prince's planetoid.