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| Keywords: bookid:lutherburbankhis04burbuoft bookidlutherburbankhis04burbuoft bookyear:1914 bookyear1914 bookdecade:1910 bookdecade1910 bookcentury:1900 bookcentury1900 bookauthor:burbank__luther__1849_1926 bookauthorburbankluther18491926 bookauthor:john__robert bookauthorjohnrobert bookauthor:whitson__john bookauthorwhitsonjohn bookauthor:williams__henry_smith__1863_1943 bookauthorwilliamshenrysmith18631943 bookauthor:luther_burbank_society bookauthorlutherburbanksociety booksubject:plant_breeding booksubjectplantbreeding bookpublisher:new_york_luther_burbank_press bookpublishernewyorklutherburbankpress bookcontributor:gerstein___university_of_toronto bookcontributorgersteinuniversityoftoronto booksponsor:university_of_toronto booksponsoruniversityoftoronto bookleafnumber:182 bookleafnumber182 bookcollection:gerstein bookcollectiongerstein bookcollection:toronto bookcollectiontoronto bhl collection bhlcollection bookid:lutherburbankhis04burbuoft bookidlutherburbankhis04burbuoft bookyear:1914 bookyear1914 bookdecade:1910 bookdecade1910 bookcentury:1900 bookcentury1900 bookauthor:burbank__luther__1849_1926 bookauthorburbankluther18491926 bookauthor:john__robert bookauthorjohnrobert bookauthor:whitson__john bookauthorwhitsonjohn bookauthor:williams__henry_smith__1863_1943 bookauthorwilliamshenrysmith18631943 bookauthor:luther_burbank_society bookauthorlutherburbanksociety booksubject:plant_breeding booksubjectplantbreeding bookpublisher:new_york_luther_burbank_press bookpublishernewyorklutherburbankpress bookcontributor:gerstein___university_of_toronto bookcontributorgersteinuniversityoftoronto booksponsor:university_of_toronto booksponsoruniversityoftoronto bookleafnumber:182 bookleafnumber182 bookcollection:gerstein bookcollectiongerstein bookcollection:toronto bookcollectiontoronto bhl collection bhlcollection bookid:lutherburbankhis04burbuoft bookidlutherburbankhis04burbuoft bookyear:1914 bookyear1914 bookdecade:1910 bookdecade1910 bookcentury:1900 bookcentury1900 bookauthor:burbank__luther__1849_1926 bookauthorburbankluther18491926 bookauthor:john__robert bookauthorjohnrobert bookauthor:whitson__john bookauthorwhitsonjohn bookauthor:williams__henry_smith__1863_1943 bookauthorwilliamshenrysmith18631943 bookauthor:luther_burbank_society bookauthorlutherburbanksociety booksubject:plant_breeding booksubjectplantbreeding bookpublisher:new_york_luther_burbank_press bookpublishernewyorklutherburbankpress bookcontributor:gerstein___university_of_toronto bookcontributorgersteinuniversityoftoronto booksponsor:university_of_toronto booksponsoruniversityoftoronto bookleafnumber:182 bookleafnumber182 bookcollection:gerstein bookcollectiongerstein bookcollection:toronto bookcollectiontoronto bhl collection bhlcollection Identifier: lutherburbankhis04burbuoft 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 View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ts. It is true that no stoneless peach of whateverquality is known, comparable to the original wildbullace of Europe, that gave the opportunity inthe development of the stoneless plum. But, for-tunately, I have been able to demonstrate that thepeach may be hybridized with the plum. I havemade the hybridization successfully with both theJapanese plum and the Chickasaw plum. Should it prove impossible to hybridize thepeach directly with a stoneless plum, one of thesepeach-plum hybrids might perhaps be made tobridge the gap. No doubt a vast deal of ingenuity would berequired to find the combination that would workout successfully. But it was shown in the case ofthe stoneless plum that it was possible to re-assemble the good qualities of the fruit of oneparent and the stoneless condition of the otherin the progeny of the hybrids of later generations. There is no obvious reason why the same thingmight not be done in the case of the peach. The possibility seems the greater because the [172] Text Appearing After Image: S a 2 c ^ : i; o o -» 3 2 I « 2. o t -I o a- -. c . a ~ _ ;a-«a S , 2 5 ; . — -» I o ■ S ~ a : ^ > a ; .*• ■» a. u ^ a a 2.a-?r «• -^ o u S I LUTHER BURBANK peach has been cultivated in so many differentregions and for so many different purposes thatit is highly variable. Its affinity with other stonefruits has been illustrated over and over in thestory of hybridizing experiments already related. So it seems at least within the possibilitiesthat a way may be found to combine the stonelesscondition which has now been bred into the germplasm of one member of the stone-fruit family,with the recognized qualities of the peach, in ahybrid—produced, no doubt, only after a seriesof experiments extending over many years—thatwill represent the ideal of a stoneless peach. If the qualities of the almond seed were alsobred into the combination, the final product—afruit having the matchless flavor of the peach, aperfectly smooth skin, and a stoneless seed of de-licious edib Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Identifier: lutherburbankhis04burbuoft 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 View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ts. It is true that no stoneless peach of whateverquality is known, comparable to the original wildbullace of Europe, that gave the opportunity inthe development of the stoneless plum. But, for-tunately, I have been able to demonstrate that thepeach may be hybridized with the plum. I havemade the hybridization successfully with both theJapanese plum and the Chickasaw plum. Should it prove impossible to hybridize thepeach directly with a stoneless plum, one of thesepeach-plum hybrids might perhaps be made tobridge the gap. No doubt a vast deal of ingenuity would berequired to find the combination that would workout successfully. But it was shown in the case ofthe stoneless plum that it was possible to re-assemble the good qualities of the fruit of oneparent and the stoneless condition of the otherin the progeny of the hybrids of later generations. There is no obvious reason why the same thingmight not be done in the case of the peach. The possibility seems the greater because the [172] Text Appearing After Image: S a 2 c ^ : i; o o -» 3 2 I « 2. o t -I o a- -. c . a ~ _ ;a-«a S , 2 5 ; . — -» I o ■ S ~ a : ^ > a ; .*• ■» a. u ^ a a 2.a-?r «• -^ o u S I LUTHER BURBANK peach has been cultivated in so many differentregions and for so many different purposes thatit is highly variable. Its affinity with other stonefruits has been illustrated over and over in thestory of hybridizing experiments already related. So it seems at least within the possibilitiesthat a way may be found to combine the stonelesscondition which has now been bred into the germplasm of one member of the stone-fruit family,with the recognized qualities of the peach, in ahybrid—produced, no doubt, only after a seriesof experiments extending over many years—thatwill represent the ideal of a stoneless peach. If the qualities of the almond seed were alsobred into the combination, the final product—afruit having the matchless flavor of the peach, aperfectly smooth skin, and a stoneless seed of de-licious edib Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Identifier: lutherburbankhis04burbuoft 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 View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ts. It is true that no stoneless peach of whateverquality is known, comparable to the original wildbullace of Europe, that gave the opportunity inthe development of the stoneless plum. But, for-tunately, I have been able to demonstrate that thepeach may be hybridized with the plum. I havemade the hybridization successfully with both theJapanese plum and the Chickasaw plum. Should it prove impossible to hybridize thepeach directly with a stoneless plum, one of thesepeach-plum hybrids might perhaps be made tobridge the gap. No doubt a vast deal of ingenuity would berequired to find the combination that would workout successfully. But it was shown in the case ofthe stoneless plum that it was possible to re-assemble the good qualities of the fruit of oneparent and the stoneless condition of the otherin the progeny of the hybrids of later generations. There is no obvious reason why the same thingmight not be done in the case of the peach. The possibility seems the greater because the [172] Text Appearing After Image: S a 2 c ^ : i; o o -» 3 2 I « 2. o t -I o a- -. c . a ~ _ ;a-«a S , 2 5 ; . — -» I o ■ S ~ a : ^ > a ; .*• ■» a. u ^ a a 2.a-?r «• -^ o u S I LUTHER BURBANK peach has been cultivated in so many differentregions and for so many different purposes thatit is highly variable. Its affinity with other stonefruits has been illustrated over and over in thestory of hybridizing experiments already related. So it seems at least within the possibilitiesthat a way may be found to combine the stonelesscondition which has now been bred into the germplasm of one member of the stone-fruit family,with the recognized qualities of the peach, in ahybrid—produced, no doubt, only after a seriesof experiments extending over many years—thatwill represent the ideal of a stoneless peach. If the qualities of the almond seed were alsobred into the combination, the final product—afruit having the matchless flavor of the peach, aperfectly smooth skin, and a stoneless seed of de-licious edib Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Identifier: lutherburbankhis04burbuoft 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 View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ts. It is true that no stoneless peach of whateverquality is known, comparable to the original wildbullace of Europe, that gave the opportunity inthe development of the stoneless plum. But, for-tunately, I have been able to demonstrate that thepeach may be hybridized with the plum. I havemade the hybridization successfully with both theJapanese plum and the Chickasaw plum. Should it prove impossible to hybridize thepeach directly with a stoneless plum, one of thesepeach-plum hybrids might perhaps be made tobridge the gap. No doubt a vast deal of ingenuity would berequired to find the combination that would workout successfully. But it was shown in the case ofthe stoneless plum that it was possible to re-assemble the good qualities of the fruit of oneparent and the stoneless condition of the otherin the progeny of the hybrids of later generations. There is no obvious reason why the same thingmight not be done in the case of the peach. The possibility seems the greater because the [172] Text Appearing After Image: S a 2 c ^ : i; o o -» 3 2 I « 2. o t -I o a- -. c . a ~ _ ;a-«a S , 2 5 ; . — -» I o ■ S ~ a : ^ > a ; .*• ■» a. u ^ a a 2.a-?r «• -^ o u S I LUTHER BURBANK peach has been cultivated in so many differentregions and for so many different purposes thatit is highly variable. Its affinity with other stonefruits has been illustrated over and over in thestory of hybridizing experiments already related. So it seems at least within the possibilitiesthat a way may be found to combine the stonelesscondition which has now been bred into the germplasm of one member of the stone-fruit family,with the recognized qualities of the peach, in ahybrid—produced, no doubt, only after a seriesof experiments extending over many years—thatwill represent the ideal of a stoneless peach. If the qualities of the almond seed were alsobred into the combination, the final product—afruit having the matchless flavor of the peach, aperfectly smooth skin, and a stoneless seed of de-licious edib Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Identifier: lutherburbankhis04burbuoft 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 View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ts. It is true that no stoneless peach of whateverquality is known, comparable to the original wildbullace of Europe, that gave the opportunity inthe development of the stoneless plum. But, for-tunately, I have been able to demonstrate that thepeach may be hybridized with the plum. I havemade the hybridization successfully with both theJapanese plum and the Chickasaw plum. Should it prove impossible to hybridize thepeach directly with a stoneless plum, one of thesepeach-plum hybrids might perhaps be made tobridge the gap. No doubt a vast deal of ingenuity would berequired to find the combination that would workout successfully. But it was shown in the case ofthe stoneless plum that it was possible to re-assemble the good qualities of the fruit of oneparent and the stoneless condition of the otherin the progeny of the hybrids of later generations. There is no obvious reason why the same thingmight not be done in the case of the peach. The possibility seems the greater because the [172] Text Appearing After Image: S a 2 c ^ : i; o o -» 3 2 I « 2. o t -I o a- -. c . a ~ _ ;a-«a S , 2 5 ; . — -» I o ■ S ~ a : ^ > a ; .*• ■» a. u ^ a a 2.a-?r «• -^ o u S I LUTHER BURBANK peach has been cultivated in so many differentregions and for so many different purposes thatit is highly variable. Its affinity with other stonefruits has been illustrated over and over in thestory of hybridizing experiments already related. So it seems at least within the possibilitiesthat a way may be found to combine the stonelesscondition which has now been bred into the germplasm of one member of the stone-fruit family,with the recognized qualities of the peach, in ahybrid—produced, no doubt, only after a seriesof experiments extending over many years—thatwill represent the ideal of a stoneless peach. If the qualities of the almond seed were alsobred into the combination, the final product—afruit having the matchless flavor of the peach, aperfectly smooth skin, and a stoneless seed of de-licious edib Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Identifier: lutherburbankhis04burbuoft 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 View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ts. It is true that no stoneless peach of whateverquality is known, comparable to the original wildbullace of Europe, that gave the opportunity inthe development of the stoneless plum. But, for-tunately, I have been able to demonstrate that thepeach may be hybridized with the plum. I havemade the hybridization successfully with both theJapanese plum and the Chickasaw plum. Should it prove impossible to hybridize thepeach directly with a stoneless plum, one of thesepeach-plum hybrids might perhaps be made tobridge the gap. No doubt a vast deal of ingenuity would berequired to find the combination that would workout successfully. But it was shown in the case ofthe stoneless plum that it was possible to re-assemble the good qualities of the fruit of oneparent and the stoneless condition of the otherin the progeny of the hybrids of later generations. There is no obvious reason why the same thingmight not be done in the case of the peach. The possibility seems the greater because the [172] Text Appearing After Image: S a 2 c ^ : i; o o -» 3 2 I « 2. o t -I o a- -. c . a ~ _ ;a-«a S , 2 5 ; . — -» I o ■ S ~ a : ^ > a ; .*• ■» a. u ^ a a 2.a-?r «• -^ o u S I LUTHER BURBANK peach has been cultivated in so many differentregions and for so many different purposes thatit is highly variable. Its affinity with other stonefruits has been illustrated over and over in thestory of hybridizing experiments already related. So it seems at least within the possibilitiesthat a way may be found to combine the stonelesscondition which has now been bred into the germplasm of one member of the stone-fruit family,with the recognized qualities of the peach, in ahybrid—produced, no doubt, only after a seriesof experiments extending over many years—thatwill represent the ideal of a stoneless peach. If the qualities of the almond seed were alsobred into the combination, the final product—afruit having the matchless flavor of the peach, aperfectly smooth skin, and a stoneless seed of de-licious edib Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. | ||||
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