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 . ?i. ?^j^MiW^^i^. Pumpkin Seeds Germinated in Wet Newspaper Sometimes Mr. Burbank employs a piece of newspaper instead of a cloth to germinate seeds, merely tvrapping the seeds loosely in the moistened paper. The efficacy of the method is demonstrated in this picture. Seeds thus germinated will make rapid growth when transferred to the soil. LUTHER BURBANK stoneless plum. We discover soon
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 . ?i. ?^j^MiW^^i^. Pumpkin Seeds Germinated in Wet Newspaper Sometimes Mr. Burbank employs a piece of newspaper instead of a cloth to germinate seeds, merely tvrapping the seeds loosely in the moistened paper. The efficacy of the method is demonstrated in this picture. Seeds thus germinated will make rapid growth when transferred to the soil. LUTHER BURBANK stoneless plum. We discover soon that the stoneseed is prepotent or dominant, and stonelessnesslatent or recessive. So we must be prepared tosee the progeny of our first generation of hybridsall produce stony fruit. But a knowledge ofthe tendency of latent or recessive characters toreappear in successive generations comes to ouraid, and we go on with the experiment with fullconfidence, even though for the moment we seemto be going backward rather than forward. In due course the second generation of plumsappears with a number of stoneless specimens, thelatent character having come to the surface. Butthese lack many of the good qualities
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