LUTHER BURBANK 



leeks as garlics; which suggests the divergence of 

 form of these South American species. 



I am now cultivating a wild garlic from the 

 mountains of Chile which is a wholly distinct 

 species from the common cultivated garlic, having 

 much larger bulbs and a taller stalk similar to that 

 of the leek. 



I have in contemplation the hybridizing of this 

 Chilean garlic plant with the familiar form of 

 cultivated garlic. My attempts to cross the species 

 with the onions have not met with success, 

 although I still think it possible that this cross may 

 be effected. 



My large collection of flowering Alliums from 

 California and other countries has of course been 

 made with the expectation of hybridizing these 

 plants among themselves or with commoner 

 varieties of the onion. There are interesting 

 possibilities of development all along the line. 



There is a Spanish onion named the Prize- 

 Taker because of the extraordinary size of the 

 bulb, which sometimes attains a weight of five or 

 six pounds. That new developments, perhaps of 

 unexpected character, will result when the varied 

 races from Europe, Asia, China, and Chile are 

 blended with American stock, is quite to be 

 expected. 



The onion is not very easy to hybridize because 



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