LUTHER BURBANK 
duced some seedlings of unusual size and good 
quality. The trees are nearly all resistant to curl- 
leaf and mildew. As might be expected, the 
seedlings from succeeding generations differ 
widely. While nearly all possess one or more 
desirable qualities, it is rare that any one com- 
bines enough good qualities to entitle it to special 
consideration. 
THE UNION OF PEACH AND ALMOND 
Another series of hybridizing experiments, 
begun about eighteen years ago, used for the 
original cross the purple-leaved peach and the 
Languedoc almond. 
In the first and second generations, the four or 
five thousand seedlings produced had green leaves 
like the almond. 
In the succeeding generation, however, there 
appeared a few seedlings having purple leaves 
suggestive of those of the peach ancestor. A par- 
ticularly dark one was saved. As is usual with the 
peach and almond hybrids, this tree was very 
fertile. One season I obtained more than 500 
fruits from it. 
In every respect this fruit was intermediate 
between the peach and the almond. 
About nine-tenths of the seedlings grown from 
the fruit of this purple-leaved hybrid had purple 
leaves like the parent plant; most of the others 
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