. Luther Burbank: his methods and discoveries and their practical application. Prepared from his original field notes covering more than 100,000 experiments made during forty years devoted to plant improvement, with the assistance of the Luther Burbank Society and its entire membership, under the editorial direction of John Whitson and Robert John and Henry Smith Williams. liest plum in existencetoday is probably the one that I developed bysuccessive hybridizations which ultimately intro-duced and blended the strains of six of the latestplums. Possibly, then, the problem of developing anorange
. Luther Burbank: his methods and discoveries and their practical application. Prepared from his original field notes covering more than 100,000 experiments made during forty years devoted to plant improvement, with the assistance of the Luther Burbank Society and its entire membership, under the editorial direction of John Whitson and Robert John and Henry Smith Williams. liest plum in existencetoday is probably the one that I developed bysuccessive hybridizations which ultimately intro-duced and blended the strains of six of the latestplums. Possibly, then, the problem of developing anorange resistant to cold—one that may be grownnot merely along the Gulf but along the GreatLakes as well—may be solved in similar seems paradoxical to suggest that the blendingof oranges from half a dozen tropical and sub-tropical climates—India, Arabia, Northern Africa,Brazil, Florida, Southern California—might pro-duce a fruit adapted to the climate of, let us say,Missouri or Ohio; yet the case of my early plum,descended from late ancestors, suggests that thisidea is not altogether chimerical. This work willbe greatly simplified by the fact that we now havean orange, before mentioned, which, withoutspecial selection for this purpose, is now hardy asfar north as Philadelphia. Other Sub-Tropical Fruits And a similar suggestion may be made regard- [292]. 3 n =? c ft-IS ^ <» ftr-^esa^sit 1 re q-B O 1 a .. a* o ci rere re »% -» «• <• o a c* re : X _. a< a< reS. P e £= ft ft.© a< ~. c a re -o a<* 3 2 n ft a 1 1 f. a re o•=•5 3 •o a re reft 2 3 2S ft o 3 o ~. a-o*« ^2 -^ s-o re *3 ~-<» 1 =? « ^ o aa* a re re 3 ft^-a =<= o 5. <» ~ .§3?. ft o o- ;3 «= §2 in 3<ft ft 3 re O g2, 5 rea* re n Q LUTHER BURBANK ing a considerable company of other fruits thathave come to us from tropical and sub-tropicalregions. The olive, the fig, the persimmon, the guava,the alligator pear, the banana, the pomegranate,the pineapple—th
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