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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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rous, compactgrowth, heavy foliage and full, round buds. Among those that have fruited are some mam-moth pears of exquisite quality when cooked; anda few are good when fresh. There is unusual variation in growth of wood,foliage, season of ripening, form, size, and qualityof fruit. Some of the hybrids have a smooth, pol-ished skin with red cheeks; others are russetthroughout. The varying qualities of the hybridsare doubtless due to the releasing of latent char-acters brought about by the commingling of thetwo widely diverse strains. It was necessary thus to hybridize and selectthrough successive generations, because the ori-ental pear brought to the combination very unde-sirable qualities of fruit as to texture and flavor.Only when these were eliminated from later gen-erations, and the qualities of the Bartlett and itsallies substituted, did the hybrid pear become acommercial possibility. But, along with its undesirable qualities offruit, the oriental pear brought other qualities (124)
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Unhandsome but Luscious This seedling pear shows a tendency to depart from thetypical pear shape, being much broader at the base, and corre-spondingly less graceful, than the favorite varieties. It has. however,qualities of flesh that commend it. but these were not consideredby Mr. Burbank to be sufficiently exceptional to war-rant the introduction of the fruit. LUTHER BURBANK that were pre-eminently desirable. First and fore-most it had fundamental vigor of constitution thatpromised to supply precisely what the Europeanpear most lacked. This was manifested not onlyin the vigor of its giowth, but in its seemingly al-most entire immunity to the attacks of the diseasethat has been the scourge of the pear growers ofAmerica for more than a century, and which madeits appearance in California about ten years ago,the disease known as the pear blight.The Pear Tree Scourge To appreciate the importance of this elementof resistance to disease, as manifested by the ori-ental pear, it must be unde

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