LUTHER BURBANK 
this. And the result is recorded in the present day 
lists of the cataloguer. Whenever, through the 
chance blending of favorable ancestral strains an 
exceptional individual has appeared, cions have 
been cut from that individual and grafted on other 
trees, and new cions cut from this and again 
grafted, until the fruit of this individual grows on 
so many different trees and in so many different 
regions that its peculiar qualities are thought of 
as representing an established variety rather than 
an individual personality. 
But if you will gather the seed from the apples 
of a single tree of even the best market “variety” 
in any given season, and will plant these seeds, 
you may have, when the seedlings come to fruit- 
ing, new “varieties” of apple, each differing from 
all its fellows, in such profusion that you may, if 
you so desire, exhaust your ingenuity in finding 
new names and publish a catalog of your own 
with a list of eight thousand or so “varieties” of 
apple that no one hitherto has ever seen or 
heard of. 
That simple but rather startling fact brings 
into sharp relief the difference between the mean- 
ing of the word “variety” as applied to such a 
fruit as the apple and the meaning of the same 
word as applied to races, of plants in a state of 
nature. 
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