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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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it tends to be retained shows how important apart it bore in the struggle for existence of thepears remote ancestors. But let us put aside theories as to the remotehistory of the pear and consider the fruit in itsmodern relations. The significant thing to bear in mind is thatin our day the pear is represented by two races,obviously related, yet quite as obviously long sep-arated, one of them finding its home in Europeand (since the Discovery) in America and theother being indigenous to eastern Asia, the twohaving thus migrated in opposite directions,circling the earth, and finally meeting on thePacific Coast of America. And the fact that these two races of pears havethus diverged, yet still retain the capacity to hy-bridize, is an all-important one from the stand-point of the fruit developer. This fact is, indeed, the basis of the newestprogress in the development of the pear, and itgives the augury of still more important develop-ments probably to take place in the near future. (112)
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