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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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toward man; and finally, the fact that itresponds to attention and proves as receptive andresponsive to good treatment as it is resistant tobad. But I am by no means sure that as to most ofthese traits, and for that matter in regard to anyothers that might be mentioned, the apple tree isnot to be given a place quite on a par with thatwhich the pear can claim. There is no occasionto dispute about the matter, however, for at bestsuch comparisons have no great significance. Let it suffice that the pear and the apple, closecousins as they are, may very well be consideredthe two orchard trees that are friendliest to man,in the broad use of the word. They have been his associates probably almostfrom the earliest times when he learned thatplants would respond to cultivation. They have gone with him on his chief migra-tions throughout the temperate zone and even wellinto sub-arctic regions. They have proved themselves adaptable to allsoils and nearly all climates; and they jointly pro- (106)
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Seedling Pears The pear is a fruit that has been very long under cultlua-lion, and it has developed certain familiar and very individualcharacteristics. A comparatively few types have become popular andare raised everywhere. But nothing more is necessary thanto plant the seeds, to secure seedlings showing thegreatest variety as to their fruit. Two aber-rant types are here shown, and nu-merous others are shown insucceeding pictures. LUTHER BURBANK duce a variety of pulpy fruits that stand in a classby themselves and are quite without competitors—or were until the quince came under the hand ofthe plant developer in very recent times.Early Migrations Which of the twain, pear or apple, was firstadopted, no one can say, but it is certain that bothwere friendly with man even in prehistoric times. There is evidence from the ruins of remotecivilization of the Lake Dwellers of Switzerlandthat the pear was known even in that day. Ofcourse it was familiar to the Greeks and Romansfrom the earli

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