LUTHER BURBANK 



flection makes it clear that late bearing and early 

 fruiting should be correlative, being adaptations 

 to a climate where the summer is brief. 



The bearing season of the plum may be short 

 or long according to the use to which the fruit is 

 to be put. 



Fruit that is to be gathered wholesale for the 

 market should have a short season, the major part 

 of it ripening at the same time. On the other 

 hand, fruit for home use or a local market should 

 have a long season. 



But even more important is the matter of 

 "every year bearing." A tree that never makes a 

 failure one that bears annually and does not have 

 any off years is the kind of a tree that is needed. 

 The orchardist naturally wants a tree that can be 

 depended upon to give him a crop. A tree that 

 sometimes balks after starting a lot of fruit, be- 

 cause the temperature or conditions of moisture 

 are not just to its liking, is not the kind of tree 

 that endears itself to the fruit grower. 



It must be understood, however, that fullness 

 of bearing has no necessary association with 

 hardiness. The two qualities are quite distinct. A 

 tree may have one quality and quite lack the other. 

 It may be able to thrive under adverse conditions 

 but not to bear under adverse conditions. 



The ideal tree, of course, is one that will not 



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