. Luther Burbank, his methods and discoveries and their practical application; . ons of moisture and wind and sunshinewere peculiarly trying, or where some insect orfungoid or bacterial pest menaced its immaturefruit. And in such a case it may readily havechanced that a peach that tended to produce a skinof exceptionally resistant texture, one in whichthe bloom assumed a more than usually powderyor fibrous character, was given protection againstthe enemies, and thus preserved where fruit withsmoother skin was destroyed. Under these circumstances, the incipient fuzzon the peach would serve as m
. Luther Burbank, his methods and discoveries and their practical application; . ons of moisture and wind and sunshinewere peculiarly trying, or where some insect orfungoid or bacterial pest menaced its immaturefruit. And in such a case it may readily havechanced that a peach that tended to produce a skinof exceptionally resistant texture, one in whichthe bloom assumed a more than usually powderyor fibrous character, was given protection againstthe enemies, and thus preserved where fruit withsmoother skin was destroyed. Under these circumstances, the incipient fuzzon the peach would serve as material for the oper-ation of natural selection, and a race of peachesbearing fuzzy-skinned fruit would presently sup-plant the tribe of smooth-skinned peaches. Something like this, I suspect, we should findto be the history of evolution of the fuzzy-skinnedpeach, could we look with some necromantic mi-croscope into the germinal center of the peachseed and translate the marvelous history of end-less generations of peaches, back Jo the beginning,that is therein recorded. [148]. « 5* re 3 5 5*5 5 ^ a
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