182 LUTHER BURBANK 



"What in the world do you mean? A fuzzless 

 peach who ever heard of such a thing?" 



"Everyone has; the fruit that you call a 

 nectarine is precisely that a peach without 

 the fuzz." 



"But that does not serve the purpose at all," 

 he insisted. "If the nectarine is a peach that has 

 lost its fuzz, it is also a peach that has lost its 

 flavor. What we want is a fuzzless peach with 

 the true peach flavor remaining." 



"Well, I think I shall be able to satisfy you 

 even there before a very great while," I an- 

 swered; "for I am on the track of experiments 

 that are likely to meet all your requirements ir 

 that direction. Even now I have a fruit that is 

 smooth-skinned and yet is unquestionably a peach 

 not only that, but a peach of excellent flavor. 

 But it is not yet quite good enough to put on the 

 market, and I shall have to carry the experiment 

 a stage or two farther before I am ready to de- 

 mand that monument." 



In another part of the orchard I already had a 

 number of fine varieties of peaches with perfectly 

 smooth skins, some of which are of extra flavor, 

 though none to quite compete with the best 

 peaches now on the market. 



My visitor assured me that nothing else that he 

 had seen gave him so much satisfaction or aroused 



