HARDENING AND ADAPTATION 



Mr. Burbank is a loyal Californian, but he 

 is also loyal to all the fruit interests of the 

 world. From his own catholic point of view 

 his mission among men is to do the greatest 

 possible good to the greatest possible number 

 of the race. 



The following, bearing directly upon the 

 subject of adaptation of fruits to other regions, 

 is the opinion of a practical fruit-grower of 

 California : 



"Mr. Burbank is doing for the East in plum 

 culture, what Hale and other peach -growers 

 have done for the peach crop. He will 

 increase it ten-fold, perhaps a hundred-fold, 

 and deprive California, to that extent, of a 

 market for her plums. California ships mil- 

 lions of boxes of plums to the eastern markets 

 annually, and the business is highly profitable. 

 Now comes Mr. Burbank and creates new 

 plums by the dozens, that bear enormously 

 and live and thrive equally well in the frozen 

 North, the sunny South or the favoring cli- 

 mate of California. Is it not possible that the 

 California plum market will go the way of the 

 peach market after Mr. Burbank's plums shall 

 have been sufficiently grown in the East? Of 



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