THE ALMOND AND ITS 

 IMPROVEMENT 



CAN IT BE GROWN INSIDE OF THE 

 PEACH? 



IN THE early years of my experimenting, 

 soon after commencing the importing of 

 plants, I had crossed the Japanese plum with 

 the almond. 



The cross was made without very great diffi- 

 culty, and the results were exceedingly interest- 

 ing. Each species was fertilized with the pollen 

 of the other, and here as elsewhere it appeared to 

 make no particular difference in which way the 

 cross was made. 



The hybrid seedlings partook somewhat of the 

 character of the earliest of the hybrids produced 

 by crossing the plum and the apricot. Most of 

 the seedlings outgrew either parent, their en- 

 hanced vigor suggesting that of the hybrid wal- 

 nuts. But, on the other hand, some of them 

 almost refused to grow at all, being perma- 

 nently dwarfed, and in this regard suggesting 



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