112 LUTHER BURBANK 



because of the great confusion of the classifiers, 

 which has led to the ascribing of different names 

 in many cases to the same species. 



For example, the variety which I received 

 under the name "anacaniha 3 * (meaning "with- 

 out spines") from Fairchild is identical with 

 specimens received from the Department of 

 Agriculture bearing only a number, and with 

 others received from Italy on one hand, and 

 from my collector in South America on the 

 other, one of the numerous specimens coming 

 under the name "gymnocarpa"; all of these were 

 more or less spiny. 



It was often only by careful inspection and 

 observation under hybridizing experiments that 

 we could identify the various specimens as being 

 of the same species, or same variety. 



Again the so-called morada, another species 

 that proved of value, was first received under the 

 name amarillo, meaning yellow, from near Vera 

 Cruz, Mexico, it having been sent me by the late 

 Walter Bryant, formerly of Santa Rosa. This 

 I found to be practically identical with another 

 specimen that had come from southern Europe, 

 under the name of Malta. 



Mr. Frank L. Myer, my then collector in 

 Mexico, later employed by the United States 

 Department of Agriculture at a better salary 



