Ripening Record 



This may 6e regarded as a companion record to the 



one shown on page 257. 7f records the highly important 



matter of the time of ripening oj various fruits. This particular page 



shows among other things that a seedling Japan raspberry ripened April 



2$th, and a new hybrid blackberry May ist. Some of Mr. Burbank's 



finest new fruits, including the Burbank cherry and the Sugar prune 



are made doubly valuable by the fact that they ripen several weeks 



earlier than similar fruits of other varieties. Mr. Burbank 



is constantly encouraging fruits, by selective breeding, 



to modify or lengthen their season of fruiting. 



