Plant-breeding; comments on the experiments of Nilsson and Burbank . uch numerous illustrations thata description of his experiments, even if but brief and incom-plete, may be considered as a renew of almost the wholefield of horticultural plant-breeding. From tliis point of \iew I shall now give a survey ofBurbanks work. In doing so it is not my aim to recom-mend his fruits or Ms flowers. They recommend them-selves, and their world-wide appreciation gives the bestproof of their high value. I am concerned only with themethodological side of the work, and my main aim is to de-scribe such detail
Plant-breeding; comments on the experiments of Nilsson and Burbank . uch numerous illustrations thata description of his experiments, even if but brief and incom-plete, may be considered as a renew of almost the wholefield of horticultural plant-breeding. From tliis point of \iew I shall now give a survey ofBurbanks work. In doing so it is not my aim to recom-mend his fruits or Ms flowers. They recommend them-selves, and their world-wide appreciation gives the bestproof of their high value. I am concerned only with themethodological side of the work, and my main aim is to de-scribe such details as will best contribute to the establishmentof the full agreement of Burbanks experience with the agricul-tural methods of Nilsson on the one side, and with the latestresults of biological investigation on the other. Luther Burbank was born ]\Iarch 7, 1849, in Lancaster,Mass. His father was of English and his mother of Scottishancestry. He was reared on a New England farm andindulged in the breeding of American grapes and of new P c Pd X ^ en 3o P rf • n • 1. i6i i62 PLANT-BREEDING potatoes, which was quite a common pursuit in ^NEassachu-setts about the year 1873. He succeeded in raising somenew varieties of potatoes in that year, multiplied themduring two succeeding summers and offered them for saleto the well known seedsmen^ Messrs. J. J. H. Gregory &Son at Marblehead, ^lass. They selected one varietyamong the three he had offered and paid him Si25 for happened in the summer of 1875, and in Septemberof the same year, Burbank left ^Massachusetts and settledat Santa Rosa, CaUfornia, partly on account of his health,partly on account of the bright prospects which the chmateof that part of Cahfornia offered him for Ms most belovedoccupation, the improvement of plants. For at Santa Rosaalmost all the garden plants, which require greenhouses in theeastern states, can be cultivated in the open, and thereforeon a much larger, or even on an almost unHmited scale. Asan ins
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