LUTHER BURBANK 
Yet the case is not really quite so bad as it 
seems. There is an old familiar saying that “blood 
will tell,” and our new formula, if properly ap- 
plied, gives full support to the saying. 
Making application of it, we may say that the 
dwarf cherry which we have developed as the re- 
sult of about nine or ten years’ efforts at the pro- 
duction of a giant, is after all a thing of quality, 
even though it lacks one of the qualities that we 
are seeking. It is a scrub as to size, but it is none 
the less a thoroughbred as regards a number of 
other qualities. In the matter of color, let us say, 
it is a vivid red; it is sweet and appetizing; it is 
resistant to disease; it will bear shipping, and 
sO on. 
Not so Bap as It SEEMS 
Indeed, it is not unlikely that, as regards all 
desirable characteristics but one, our cherries are 
of such quality that, even in the patrician ranks 
in which they find themselves, they must be ad- 
mitted to be “upper crust,” to use a phrase that is 
said sometimes to pass current in human patrician 
circles. Or upon reverting to our formule, and 
therefore to the terminology of the printer, we 
may say that they are “upper case” as regards all 
qualities other than size. 
As to bigness, to be sure, they are pure reces- 
sives and must be labeled bb; but as to juiciness 
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