. 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. late timeof blooming. This is important merely because itis necessary that staminate and pistillate plantsshould bloom at the same time, else the fig waspobviously cannot perform its pollenizing service. A pound of European
. 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. late timeof blooming. This is important merely because itis necessary that staminate and pistillate plantsshould bloom at the same time, else the fig waspobviously cannot perform its pollenizing service. A pound of European figs, grown from flowersfertilized by the Capri insect (otherwise the seedswould be infertile) will produce perhaps ten thou-sand seedlings. But it requires patience to waitfifteen or twenty years to test the fruit, and itcannot be fairly tested in less time. It is difficult to hasten the process by graftingbecause the fig cion does not take kindly to beingtransplanted. Doubtless a satisfactory method of graftingmight be developed, however, were sufficient at-tention given to the subject. Perhaps nothing morewould be necessary than to protect the cion care-fully against drying, by covering it with a paperbag until union has taken place, as is done ingrafting the orange and various other fruits, andthe walnut. As just stated, the attempts to hybridize the fig [298]. Blossom of the Feijoa The Feijoa or ftg guava is indigenous to Brazil, whence it has recently been introduced into warm temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. Mr. Burbank now has the plant under tutorage at Santa Rosa, and it is expected that marked improvement in the fruit will be shown in the course of a few generations. LUTHER BURBANK with its relative, the mulberry, did not provesuccessful. But this was probably because I did not giveenough time and patient attention to the two fruits are botanically related and I some-times think of the fig as a mulberry turned outsidein. It should be possible
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