. Luther Burbank, his methods and discoveries and their practical application; . It is true that no stoneless peach of whateverquality is known, comparable to the original wildbuUace of Europe, that gave the opportunity inthe development of the stoneless .plum. But, for-tunately, I have been able to demonstrate that thepeach may be hybridized with the plum. I havemade the hybridization successfully with both theJapanese plum and the Chickasaw plum. Should it prove impossible to hybridize thepeach directly with a stoneless plum, one of thesepeach-plum hybrids might perhaps be made tobridge the
. Luther Burbank, his methods and discoveries and their practical application; . It is true that no stoneless peach of whateverquality is known, comparable to the original wildbuUace of Europe, that gave the opportunity inthe development of the stoneless .plum. But, for-tunately, I have been able to demonstrate that thepeach may be hybridized with the plum. I havemade the hybridization successfully with both theJapanese plum and the Chickasaw plum. Should it prove impossible to hybridize thepeach directly with a stoneless plum, one of thesepeach-plum hybrids might perhaps be made tobridge the gap. No doubt a vast deal of ingenuity would berequired to find the combination that would workout successfully. But it was showji in the case ofthe stoneless plum that it was possible to re-assemble the good qualities of the fruit of oneparent and the stoneless condition of the otherin the progeny of the hybrids of Ikter generations. There is no obvious reason why the same thingmight not be done in the case of tlie peach. The possibility seems the greater because the [172]. ? e ^f (tt 3 2 t> *? » (B T T S ;? 3 6* « c ci. ft, 3, O « *« to tjo Sn _ •* - «. ** ™ a S^ n » (» ft S ^>i, •«h n is o :§£ a? ft LUTHER BURBAl^K peach has been cultivated in so many differentregions and for so many different purposes thatit is highly variable. Its affinity with other stonefruits has been illustrated over and over in thestory of hybridizing experiments already related. So it seems at least within the possibilitiesthat a way may be found to combine the stonelesscondition which has now been bred into the germplasm of one member of the stone-fruit family,with the recognized qualities of the peach, in ahybrid—^produced, no doubt, only after a seriesof experiments extending over rnany years—thatwill represent the ideal of a stoneless peach. If the qualities of the almond seed were alsobred into the combination, the final product—afruit having the matchless flavor
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