South American Cherries 
Much of Mr. Burbank’s success has been due, as the reader 
is aware, to the hybridizing of plants brought from different 
geographical localities. This picture shows a South American cherry 
that has been used in the course of the crossbreeding and hybridizing 
experiments through which Mr. Burbank’s many varieties of perfected 
cherries have been developed. It will be seen that the South 
American cherry differs quite widely in appearance as 
well as in the foliage from the ordinary 
cherry of the northern hemisphere, 
