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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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attain this goal. Whatever the precise steps through which thefurther development of the quince is broughtabout, there can be no question that this fruit hasa very important future. It has been neglectedin the past, and the fact of its tendency to varytoward the wild type, demonstrates the compara-tively slight improvement that has been made init through artificial selection. But the productionof the new quinces that I have described opens abroad new field in quince culture. The first stepsin improvement have sufficed to show that thefruit is responsive. The quince of to-day is, indeed, a half wildproduct that has waited long for its opportunity. It remains for the fruit growers of tomorrow,working with the partially developed product inhand, to see that the possibilities of this uniquefruit are realized. So hardy, prolific and generallyattractive a tree should make especial appeal tothe amateur orchardist The fact that the quincehas been neglected, and thus has abundant possi- (238)
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