LUTHER BURBANK 
result, up to date, was a tree bearing a rich, rosy, 
pink blossom, fully two inches in diameter, which 
is produced in greatest abundance, on trees of 
strong growth, which show no propensity to droop 
like the oriental tree, and which appear to be 
resistant to curl-leaf and mildew. 
This large, vigorous, healthy tree, bearing a 
profusion of bright pink flowers, has obvious or- 
namental value. But in addition to this, this new 
variety bears an abundance of fruit, large in size, 
and almond-shaped, which is of fairly good qual- 
ity when fresh, although scarcely to be compared 
with standard peaches, but which when cooked 
is probably unsurpassed by any peach, having a 
delightful almond flavor. 
This particular variety is a cross of the crim- 
son flowering oriental peach and the hybrid Muir 
peach, and is a product of the first generation. 
Especial interest attaches to the results of 
crossing the oriental peaches with peaches of the 
occidental stock because, as in the case of so many 
other fruits, the peach of the Orient is widely 
divergent from the European type, although 
doubtless both have the same remote origin. As 
in the case of our other chief fruits, the native 
home of the peach was doubtless southern and 
central Asia and eastern Europe, and there was 
a double migration in prehistoric days which re- 
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