LUTHER BURBANK 



Yet these enemies form the least important, 

 perhaps, of the special conditions to which plants 

 may be accommodated. 



The market demand, for example, is a specific 

 condition which well repays any effort expended 

 in transforming plants to meet it. 



The early cherries, and the early asparagus, 

 and the early corn and every fruit and food 

 which can be offered before the heavy season 

 opens, is rewarded with a fancy price which 

 means a fancy profit to its producer. 



The early bearers, too, may be supplanted 

 with those still earlier, until the extra early ones 

 overlap the extra late ones. Mr. Burbank now 

 has strawberries, which, in climates where there 

 is no frost severe enough to prevent, bear the 

 year around. 



Mr. Burbank's winter rhubarb, another year- 

 around bearer, as well as his plumcot with its 

 indestructible bloom, are improvements which 

 show what can be done in the way of meeting 

 market demand. 



His cherries, which have retailed at $3.10 a 

 pound because of their lusciousness and their 

 earliness, give an idea of the profit of changing 

 the bearing periods of our plants as against taking 

 their output as it comes. 



Beside the market demand for fresh fruits 



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