LUTHER BURBANK 



Many of them combined the sweet yellow flesh 

 of the peach and the acid quality of the nectarine, 

 producing delectable and altogether novel flavors. 

 SMOOTH-SKINNED PEACH HYBRIDS 



There are now large numbers of these cross- 

 bred peach-nectarines on my place, some of them 

 being of the fifth and sixth generation from the 

 original crossing. 



Some have a crimson leaf like that of the 

 crimson-leaved peach. 



Some that have the characteristic rough stone 

 of the peach, retain the smooth skin of the nec- 

 tarine. These constitute a smooth-skinned vari- 

 ety of peach such as the visitor with the aversion 

 to fuzzy skin longed for. 



First and last, these hybrids show almost all 

 possible combinations of a score or so of qualities 

 as to which the two fruits in their divers varieties 

 differ. Among these there are some that are of 

 such desirability as to make the fruits worthy of 

 introduction, notwithstanding the very excellent 

 assortment of peaches already on the market. 



The first member of the hybrid company to be 

 sent out into the world was named the Opulent. 



It grew on a vigorous tree that bore abund- 

 antly even when quite young, and produced a full 

 crop of superlatively luscious fruit each season, 

 ripening here about July 30th. The fruit has a 



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