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through which the peach also may at some time 

 become stoneless. 



And it is not unlikely that the Bolivian pea- 

 stone peach, which has shown a propensity to 

 minimize the stone, may be utilized advanta- 

 geously in the course of these experiments. 



It is true that no stoneless peach of whatever 

 quality is known, comparable to the original wild 

 bullace of Europe, that gave the opportunity in 

 the development of the stoneless plum. But, for- 

 tunately, I have been able to demonstrate that the 

 peach may be hybridized with the plum. I have 

 made the hybridization successfully with both the 

 Japanese plum and the Chickasaw plum. 



Should it prove impossible to hybridize the 

 peach directly with a stoneless plum, one of these 

 peach-plum hybrids might perhaps be made to 

 bridge the gap. 



No doubt a vast deal of ingenuity would be 

 required to find the combination that would work 

 out successfully. But it was shown in the case of 

 the stoneless plum that it was possible to re- 

 assemble the good qualities of the fruit of one 

 parent and the stoneless condition of the other 

 in the progeny of the hybrids of later generations. 



There is no obvious reason why the same thing 

 might not be done in the case of the peach. 



The possibility seems the greater because the 



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