LUTHER BURBANK 
conditions think of the saving in not having to 
pit them. 
The list could be extended almost endlessly, 
from thickening the skin of the plum so as to 
enable it to be shipped to South Africa and back, 
as Mr. Burbank has done, to the production of a 
tomato, which, when placed in boiling water, will 
shed its skin without peeling—which Mr. Burbank 
says can be done. 
Under the head of saving a plant from its own 
extravagance might well come the large subject 
of bringing trees to early fruiting, or of short- 
ening the period from seed to maturity in shade 
and lumber trees. Mr. Burbank’s quick growing 
walnut, and his pineapple quince and chestnut 
seedlings bearing crops at six months, stand forth 
as strong encouragement to those who would take 
up this line. 
Then, too, under the same heading of fitting 
plants to meet new conditions, whole chapters 
might be written on how the fig tree could be 
adapted to New England; or how Minnesota might 
be made one of the greatest fruit producing states, 
or how almost any plant might, in time, be adapted 
to any soil or any climate. 
And, conversely, there is the broad subject of 
adapting plants to special localities. The hop crop 
of Sonoma County, California, the cabbage crop 
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