HORTICULTURAL PROGRESS 



of ten feet around the entire garden ; three rows 

 each containing six dwarf pear trees, eighteen 

 specimens in all; six species each of peaches, 

 dwarf apples, cherries and plums; twenty 

 blackberry specimens; forty blackcaps; forty 

 red raspberries ; three hundred strawberries. 



Not only is there opportunity even in 

 cramped quarters for the successful growing of 

 fruits, but there is also a still more interesting 

 and, possibly, profitable allied line, the breed- 

 ing of new fruits by cross-fertilization and 

 selection. Whoever is able to produce a new 

 type of fruit or so to enhance the value of an 

 old one that it will supplant existing ones, not 

 only performs an act of surpassing interest to 

 himself and friends, not only derives a snug 

 sum from the sale of the new fruit, if he so 

 desires, for wider introduction by some noted 

 nurseryman, but adds markedly to the pleasure 

 and the welfare of the race. It may be, 

 indeed, that large wealth may accrue to the 

 nation and the w^orld through this addition to 

 its food forces. Marked impetus has been 

 given to this in recent days through the fasci- 

 nating work of the great plant-breeder, Luther 

 Burbank, who, using such methods and such 



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