Identifier: lutherburbankhis04burbuoft (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Burbank, Luther, 1849-1926 John, Robert Whitson, John Williams, Henry Smith, 1863-1943 Luther Burbank Society
Subjects: Plant-breeding
Publisher: New York Luther Burbank Press
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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wo species in size, color, quality, growth, andother characteristics, both of trees and fruits inall variations. But among the second-generation seedlingsraised from these hybrids some fairly good appleswere produced. In form, some almost duplicatedthe Gravenstein itself; very few of them resembledthe true wild crab t>pe, except that nearly all hada certain crablike acidity and lack of flavor. Some of these hybrids are still growing on mySebastopol farm. No one of them gives promiseof being worthy of introduction, but it is not un-likely that something of value may be developedfrom this stock by further hybridizations and se-lections. The wild crab has certain qualities ofhardiness and prolific bearing that might be ofvalue in combination with the fruiting qualitiesof some cultivated variety. This, at all events, isa line of investigation that offers opportunity forfurther tests. Doubtless the most interesting of these hybrid-izing experiments with the apple tree are those in (204)
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