LUTHER BURBANK 
“Everyone has; the fruit that you call a necta- 
rine is precisely that thing—a peach without the 
fuzz.” 
“But that does not serve the purpose at all,” 
he insisted. “If the nectarine is a peach that has 
lost its fuzz, it is also a peach that has lost its 
flavor. What we want is a fuzzless peach with the 
true peach flavor remaining.” 
“Well, I think I shall be able to satisfy you 
even there before a very great while,” I answered; 
“for I am on the track of experiments that are 
likely to meet all your requirements in that direc- 
tion. Even now I have a fruit that is smooth- 
skinned and yet is unquestionably a peach—not 
only that, but a peach of excellent flavor. But it 
is not yet quite good enough to put on the market, 
and I shall have to carry the experiment a stage 
or two farther before I am ready to demand that 
monument.” 
And then I led the way to a part of the orchard 
where I was able to show a number of peaches with 
perfectly smooth skins, some of which are by no 
means ill-flavored, even though none quite com- 
pete with the best peaches now on the market. 
My visitor assured me that nothing else that he 
had seen gave him so much satisfaction or aroused 
such pleasurable anticipations as this smooth- 
skinned peach. 
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