. 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. ts. It is true that no stoneless peach of whateverquality is known, comparable to the original wildbullace of Europe, that gave the opportunity inthe development of the stoneless plum. But, for-tunately, I have been able to
. 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. ts. It is true that no stoneless peach of whateverquality is known, comparable to the original wildbullace of Europe, that gave the opportunity inthe development of the stoneless plum. But, for-tunately, I have been able to demonstrate that thepeach may be hybridized with the plum. I havemade the hybridization successfully with both theJapanese plum and the Chickasaw plum. Should it prove impossible to hybridize thepeach directly with a stoneless plum, one of thesepeach-plum hybrids might perhaps be made tobridge the gap. No doubt a vast deal of ingenuity would berequired to find the combination that would workout successfully. But it was shown in the case ofthe stoneless plum that it was possible to re-assemble the good qualities of the fruit of oneparent and the stoneless condition of the otherin the progeny of the hybrids of later generations. There is no obvious reason why the same thingmight not be done in the case of the peach. The possibility seems the greater because the [172]. S a 2 c ^ : i; o o -» 3 2 I « 2. o t -I o a- -. c . a ~ _ ;a-«a S , 2 5 ; . — -» I o ? S ~ a : ^ > a ; .*• ?» a. u ^ a a «• -^ o u S I LUTHER BURBANK peach has been cultivated in so many differentregions and for so many different purposes thatit is highly variable. Its affinity with other stonefruits has been illustrated over and over in thestory of hybridizing experiments already related. So it seems at least within the possibilitiesthat a way may be found to combine the stonelesscondition which has now been bred into the germplasm of one member of the stone-fruit family,with the recognized qu
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