LUTHER BURBANK 



site characters. Seedlings having small, knotted, 

 twisted wood; slender, small, sharp buds; long 

 joints; woolly, wild-looking leaves, and irregular 

 rambling tendency of growth should be rejected, 

 as they will rarely produce fruit of any value. 



There are notable exceptions to these rules of 

 correlation between twig and foliage and fruit- 

 quality, but, as a rule, the qualities just noted may 

 be depended upon to serve as useful guides. 



My second important new quince was grown 

 as a seedling from Rae's Mammoth. It was, I am 

 confident, a third generation seedling of a cross 

 between Rae's Mammoth and the Portugal 

 quinces. Its immediate pollenate parentage is not 

 a matter of record, as a great number of cross- 

 bred quinces were under observation at the same 

 time, and specific record was kept only of the 

 first pollenations. 



This offspring of Rae's Mammoth was at first 

 called the Santa Rosa, but was subsequently re- 

 christened by the introducer as the Child's quince. 

 It is remarkable for its great size and productive- 

 ness, for beauty of form, and for its pale lemon 

 yellow or almost white skin; also for the tender 

 flesh and delicious flavor of its fruit, and the di- 

 minutive size of the core. 



So fine-grained and tender is the fruit, and so 

 free from the harsh acidity of the old quince, that 



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