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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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ON PRACTICAL PLANS
So the bottom of a valley is a very poor place to plant fruit; except, indeed, in certain canyons or gulches where there is a steady current of air in motion throughout the night. In general, the orchard site should be on a hilltop or hillside, or at least at an elevation above the lowest land surface in the neighborhood, unless the valleys are either naturally or artificially well drained.
Without attempting further details in this place, enough has been said to show that there are almost numberless points to be considered by the up-to-date fruit grower in the development of a new orchard. What has been said will supply clues that the thoughtful orchardist may readily follow up. As to the specific fruits, further details, with particular reference to the practical aspects of the subject, will be given in succeeding chapters.
—"In several cases," says the Ohio report, "a net profit of $400 per acre has been secured from an abandoned orchard."
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Mr. Burbanks 400
The picture gives a direct glimpse into the foliage of the large cherry tree at Sebastopol on which Mr. Burbank has grafted more than four hundred different varieties of cherries. Practically every branch here shown bears a different kind of cherry, and nearly all are of superlative quality. A single tree thus treated becomes in itself an orchard.
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Doubling the Productiveness of the Cherry
More and Better Cherries
WHEN I chance to see mention in the newspaper headings of the doings of New Yorks celebrated Four Hundred I am sometimes reminded of the Four Hundred of Sebastopol.
The particular Sebastopol that I have in mind is the place where my fruit farm is located, about seven miles from Santa Rosa. By the Four Hundred of Sebastopol I mean a very aristocratic colony, comprising four hundred families of pedigreed cherries, that are colonized on a single big tree in my cherry orchard.
I could speak only from vaguest hearsay as to the lineage of New Yorks aristocratic coterie, but may claim to

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