. 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. exceeding juiciness of pulp, thebulk of the fruit being made up of water—withdelicious acids and sweets instilled therein—merely intermeshed with enough thin fibrous tis-sues to give stabilitj^ to the fruit structure. These
. 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. exceeding juiciness of pulp, thebulk of the fruit being made up of water—withdelicious acids and sweets instilled therein—merely intermeshed with enough thin fibrous tis-sues to give stabilitj^ to the fruit structure. These fruits are further characterized by theunique quality of the fruit-covering, ispainted with marvelous hues that are so uniqueas to have given their names to prominent pig-ments of the painters color box; and incorporate [288]. i a- -. 5 o o = 9 o 3 LUTHER BURBANK curious series of minute oil wells laden with es-sential essences of no less individual quality. These traits, amon^ others, mark the citrusfruits as constituting a highly specialized and iso-lated group of plants. It is not to be expected that any one of themcould be hybridized with a member of any otherfamily. But, on the other hand, within the boundsof the citrus family there is full opportunity, as Ihave already pointed out, for cross-fertilization. J am confident that many interesting develop-ments would have resulted from the hybridizationof oranges and lemons and limes and citrons inmy orchard had not the frost treated the tender-lings so harshly. Not unlikely there would havebeen developed new citrus fruits differing fromany existing one as markedly as the plumcot dif-fers from apricot and plum. This, of course, isonly matter of conjecture for the experiments werecut short, as already told, before they passed be-yond the early stages. Still
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