. Luther Burbank, his methods and discoveries and their practical application; . « 5* re 3 5 5*5 5 ^ a. ^ LUTHER BURBANK There is no such microscope as this, of course. But we can, in a sense, perform the same necro-mantic feat, and lay bare the mysteries of thehistory of the evolution of the race of peaches, ina quite different manner. If you have read the earlier chapters of thiswork, you will know that the method I have inmind is the familiar one of causing the germplasm of the peach, with its weird record of pastevents, to blend with the germ plasm of anothertribe of plants having a somewh
. Luther Burbank, his methods and discoveries and their practical application; . « 5* re 3 5 5*5 5 ^ a. ^ LUTHER BURBANK There is no such microscope as this, of course. But we can, in a sense, perform the same necro-mantic feat, and lay bare the mysteries of thehistory of the evolution of the race of peaches, ina quite different manner. If you have read the earlier chapters of thiswork, you will know that the method I have inmind is the familiar one of causing the germplasm of the peach, with its weird record of pastevents, to blend with the germ plasm of anothertribe of plants having a somewhat different his-tory; in order that the conflict of tendencies thusbrought about (as we used to say? or the blendingof hereditary factors, to use the pbpular phrase ofthe moment), shall bring to the surface and maketangible in the hybrids of a new generation, thetraits that were submerged and hidden in the in-dividual plant before us. And when this familiar yet no less wonderfultest is applied, we learn, among other things, thatthe peach which now holds to its fuzzy coating sotenaciously, at one t
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