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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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ut it is certain that bothwere friendly with man even in prehistoric times. There is evidence from the ruins of remotecivilization of the Lake Dwellers of Switzerlandthat the pear was known even in that day. Ofcourse it was familiar to the Greeks and Romansfrom the earliest recorded periods of history. Long before that it had come out of its centralAsian home—if, as is almost certain, that was itsoriginal habitat—and had become thoroughly do-mesticated about the Mediterranean. Otherbranches of the same race had migrated eastwarduntil they found a home in China and Japan. And in these widely separated regions, at theextremes of the largest continent, the two descend-ants of the primitive stock developed, each in itsown way, in response to soil, climate, and the di-verse temperaments of the peoples, until the pearof Europe was in many ways a different fruit fromthe pear of the Far East. But there was one migration made by prehis-toric man in which the pear, apparently, did not (108)
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The Long and the Short of It No one unfamiliar with practical horticulture would sus-pect that these two pears were grown from seeds of the samefruit. They illustrate the strangely varied hereditary factors thai findlodgment in the germ cells of a cultivated fruit. And ofcourse they furnish material for selective breedingthrough which new varieties may be developed. LUTHER BURBANK accompany him. This was the final stage of theeastward journey of our remote ancestors whichcarried tliem across a land bridge, now no longerin existence, between northeastern Asia and thepresent Alaska, and thus brought them toAmerica. It seems a fair presumption that when prehis-toric man made this final migration he broughtthe apple with him. At all events, with or without man*s aid, theapple made its way across the bridge that joinedthe continents. Probably the fact that the seeds of the pearwill not germinate when once dried may explainthe failure of that tree to come with the forerun-ners of the Indian

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