THE BURBANK CHERRY 



response to the environment in widely scattered 

 geo{^ra])liical territories and through hundreds of 

 generations, have been brought together, in com- 

 binations never hitherto presented; with the result 

 that my early-bearing, large sized, bright colored, 

 and highly flavored cherries constitute essentially 

 a new variety of fruit, while at the same time they 

 evidence with full force the all-compassing influ- 

 ence of the laws of heredity. 



— According to strict Men- 

 delian reasoning, it is clear 

 that we must deal with 

 thousands of seedlings in 

 order to stand a chance of 

 securing a single one that 

 shows a desired combina- 

 tion of qualities, when six 

 or eight qualities are in 

 question — and I seldom 

 work with less in view. 



