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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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ir peach,a very hardy, vigorous, abundantly productivevariety of the peach that is largely cultivated inCalifornia. The white nectarine has a rich flavor, but it istoo acid to eat without cooking. It is of largesize, has a large stone, and white flesh, with per-fectly smooth white skin. The Muir peach, on theother hand, is very sweet, with firm yellow flesh,and an unusually small, free stone. A tree of thisvariety is unusually hardy, long-lived, and im-mune from that pest of the peach orchard, curl-leaf. It may be grown in a large variety of soilsin locations where other peaches and nectarinesoften fail. The offspring of this union of nectarine andpeach in due course came to fruiting age, and insome cases the fruit they bore was found to be ofa quality superior to that of any peach or necta-rine at that time ever seen. In the second andthird generation there appeared a varied com-pany, showing remarkable new combinations ofqualities, and anomalies of form, size, color andflavor. (154)
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352. gs-g. 3 ^ is :i~-p ., ~ o 2 oo c _ 3;o b- n> 9 8 ** o •? se a 2 o 3 3? LUTHER BURBANK Many of them combined the sweet yellow fleshof the peach and the acid quality of the nectarine,producing delectable and altogether novel flavors.Smooth-Skinned Peach Hybrids There are now large numbers of these cross-bred peach-nectarines on my place, some of thembeing of the fifth and sixth g^eration from theoriginal crossing. Some have a crimson leaf like that of thecrimson-leaved peach. Some that have the characteristic rough stoneof the peach, retain the smooth skin of the nec-tarine. These constitute a smooth-skinned vari-ety of peach such as the visitor with the aversionto fuzzy skin longed for. First and last, these hybrids show almost allpossible combinations of a score or so of qualitiesas to which the two fruits in their divers varietiesdiifer. Among these there are some that are ofsuch desirability as to make the fruits worthy ofintroduction, notwithstanding the very excellentass

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