LUTHER BURBANK 



imported from Japan and China, and from north- 

 ern Asia and Russia. 



I have also crossed the currant with the goose- 

 berry, but the hybrids in this case produced no 

 fruit. Notwithstanding the large number of ex- 

 periments and their interesting results, I have 

 not produced any new currant that was thought 

 worthy of introduction. There is now under ob- 

 servation, however, a hybrid seedling from the 

 Calif ornian species already referred to Ribes 

 sanguineum, which is several generations removed 

 from the original, and which bears long clusters 

 of very large blue berries with few seeds. 



This is the best of thousands of hybrids that I 

 have grown, though I have produced a few really 

 good currants of unique form and flavor, as well 

 as a flowering currant of unusual size and beauty. 



All in all, my work with the currants, while 

 substantiating and emphasizing the principles of 

 plant development that work with other plants 

 had made familiar, and while showing many fea- 

 tures of interest, has not resulted in any very 

 striking developments; largely, perhaps, because 

 attention was diverted from this line of work to 

 other experiments of greater immediate promise; 

 and because the experiments were too radical, 

 taking in so many species that so many unique 

 characters appeared that I had not time to segre- 



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