LUTHER BURBANK 
Many of them combined the sweet yellow flesh 
of the peach and the acid quality of the nectarine, 
producing delectable and altogether novel flavors. 
SMOOTH-SKINNED PEACH Hysrips 
There are now large numbers of these cross- 
bred peach-nectarines on my place, some of them 
being of the fifth and sixth generation from the 
original crossing. 
Some have a crimson leaf like that of the 
crimson-leaved peach. 
Some that have the characteristic rough stone 
of the peach, retain the smooth skin of the nec- 
tarine. These constitute a smooth-skinned vari- 
ety of peach such as the visitor with the aversion 
to fuzzy skin longed for. 
First and last, these hybrids show almost all 
possible combinations of a score or so of qualities 
as to which the two fruits in their divers varieties 
differ. Among these there are some that are of 
such desirability as to make the fruits worthy of 
introduction, notwithstanding the very excellent 
assortment of peaches already on the market. 
The first member of the hybrid company to be 
sent out into the world was named the Opulent. 
It grew on a vigorous tree that bore abund- 
antly even when quite young, and produced a full 
crop of superlatively luscious fruit each season, 
ripening here about July 30th. The fruit has a 
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