LUTHER BURBANK 
Yet these enemies form the least important, 
perhaps, of the special conditions to which plants 
may be accommodated. 
The market demand, for example, is a specific 
condition which well repays any effort expended 
in transforming plants to meet it. 
The early cherries, and the early asparagus, 
and the early corn—and every fruit and food 
which can be offered before the heavy season 
opens, is rewarded with a fancy price which 
means a fancy profit to its producer. 
The early bearers, too, may be supplanted 
with those still earlier, until the extra early ones 
overlap the extra late ones. Mr. Burbank now 
has strawberries, which, in climates where there 
is no frost severe enough to prevent, bear the 
year around. 
Mr. Burbank’s winter rhubarb, another year- 
around bearer, as well as his plumcot with its 
indestructible bloom, are improvements which 
show what can be done in the way of meeting 
market demand. 
His cherries, which have retailed at $3.10 a 
pound because of their lusciousness and their 
earliness, give an idea of the profit of changing 
the bearing periods of our plants as against taking 
their output as it comes. 
Beside the market demand for fresh fruits 
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