LUTHER BURBANK 
duce a variety of pulpy fruits that stand in a class 
by themselves and are quite without competitors— 
or were until the quince came under the hand of 
the plant developer in very recent times. 
Earty MIGRATIONS 
Which of the twain, pear or apple, was first 
adopted, no one can say, but it is certain that both 
were friendly with man even in prehistoric times. 
There is evidence from the ruins of remote 
civilization of the Lake Dwellers of Switzerland 
that the pear was known even in that day. Of 
course it was familiar to the Greeks and Romans 
from the earliest recorded periods of history. 
Long before that it had come out of its central 
Asian home—if, as is almost certain, that was its 
original habitat—and had become thoroughly do- 
mesticated about the Mediterranean. Other 
branches of the same race had migrated eastward 
until they found a home in China and Japan. 
And in these widely separated regions, at the 
extremes of the largest continent, the two descend- 
ants of the primitive stock developed, each in its 
own way, in response to soil, climate, and the di- 
verse temperaments of the peoples, until the pear 
of Europe was in many ways a different fruit from 
the pear of the Far East. 
But there was one migration made by prehis- 
toric man in which the pear, apparently, did not 
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