. 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. new stock willbe sent out and will in due course colonize manyan orchard with a new variety of fruit that is sureto find great favor. But if I thus from time to time have pleasantsurprises, I am also too often chagrined to f
. 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. new stock willbe sent out and will in due course colonize manyan orchard with a new variety of fruit that is sureto find great favor. But if I thus from time to time have pleasantsurprises, I am also too often chagrined to findamong my patrician cherries offspring that seemunworthy. But of course one hears of black sheepamong the scions of even the noblest families, soit is not surprising that the blueblood cherries ofSebastopol offer no exception. And as the black member of any human familyis always held up as a warning example, I havethought that I might in the same way make theblack sheep of my cherry colony serve a usefulpurpose by explaining somewhat in detail the rea-son for their appearance. In so doing I shall be able, perhaps, to make asomewhat clearer exposition than has hithertobeen attempted of certain aspects of heredity thatare peculiarly important from the standpoint ofthe practical plant developer. Upper Case Qualities We have learned something in earlier chapters [72]. V J^ South American Cherries Much of Mr. Burbanks success has been due, as the reader is aware, to the hybridizing of plants brought from different geographical localities. This picture shows a South American cherra that has been used in the course of the crossbreeding and hubridlxina experiments through which Mr. Burbanks many varieties of perfected cherries have been developed. It will be seen that the South American cherry differs quite widely in appearance as well as in the foliage from the ordinary cherry of the northern hemisphere. LUTHER BURBANK about unit characters and the way in which theyare blended or mo
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