. 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. teur visitor is matter for greater sur-prise than this utilization of single trees for thecarrying out of vast numbers of experiments. Theutility of the method, in the saving of both landand the experimenters time, is altoge
. 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. teur visitor is matter for greater sur-prise than this utilization of single trees for thecarrying out of vast numbers of experiments. Theutility of the method, in the saving of both landand the experimenters time, is altogether obviousonce attention is called to it. Yet relatively few,even among professional fruit growers, have hith-erto gauged the possibilities of the method. Of course the average visitor who inspects mygardens has no thought of becoming an experi-menter on a large scale, and hence would not haveoccasion to practise multiple grafting and regraft-ing on any such scale as that employed at SantaRosa and Sebastopol. But I call particular atten-tion to this matter of fruit-tree grafting, becausethere is a lesson in it not merely for the profes-sional fruit grower but for tens of thousands ofpersons scattered across the length and breadth ofthe country who have in their gardens a few fruittrees, at present of no apparent value, that mightbe made to bear in abundance. [38]. J ;io o ^ s ? 5 3 2. S--0 r: §5-5 52 > =.1 5 2 rs 5 3 Co J**- LUTHER BURBANK Moreover, there are other thousands who haveon their farms neglected orchards, run riot withweeds and bringing no monetary return whatever,which might be made the most productive and val-uable portions of the entire acreage. And in each case the grafting of the cions ofgood varieties of fruit on the old and otherwiseworthless stock is the key to the entire Trees Made Young We shall have occasion in the successive chap-ters of the present volume to examine in detail themethods of cultivation and possibilities of im-pro
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