. City homes on country lanes; philosophy and practice of the home-in-a-garden . )lo tliis mctliod of selection and so-called linebreeding with the method of cross-pollcnizing different. HTHER lUHnAXK Troplut and ^ir ,if lli,- Nrw an,! (,T Earth Luther Burbank and the New Earth 107 varieties of species, to produce hybrid forms showing atendency to greater variation or to the accentuation ofdesired characters, and we have in outline the funda-mental princi})lcs of plant-breeding as known to horti-culturists for generations, and as applied by Mr. Bur-bank from the outset of his caree
. City homes on country lanes; philosophy and practice of the home-in-a-garden . )lo tliis mctliod of selection and so-called linebreeding with the method of cross-pollcnizing different. HTHER lUHnAXK Troplut and ^ir ,if lli,- Nrw an,! (,T Earth Luther Burbank and the New Earth 107 varieties of species, to produce hybrid forms showing atendency to greater variation or to the accentuation ofdesired characters, and we have in outline the funda-mental princi})lcs of plant-breeding as known to horti-culturists for generations, and as applied by Mr. Bur-bank from the outset of his career. But there weresundry highly essential details of modification that wereintroduced by the Santa Rosa experimenter, as will ap-pear presently. Moreover, even in the application of the old familiarmethod, Mr. Burbank was able from the outset to gainexceptional results because of certain inherent quali-ties that peculiarly fitted him for the work. Amongthese qualities was his exceedingly acute vision, a re-markable color sense, and an almost abnormally de-veloped sense of smell and taste. Artists who havetested his eyes have declared that he can readily de-tect graduations of colo
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