THE ALMOND AND ITS 

 IMPROVEMENT 



CAN IT BE GROWN INSIDE OF THE PEACH? 



IN the early years of my experimenting, soon 

 after I began importing plants, I attempted 

 to cross the Japanese plum with the almond. 



The cross was made without very great difli- 

 culty, and the results were exceedingly interesting. 

 Each species was fertilized with the pollen of the 

 other, and here as elsewhere it appeared to make 

 no particular difference in which way the cross 

 was made. 



The hybrid seedlings partook somewhat of the 

 character of the earliest of the hybrids produced 

 by crossing the plum and the apricot. Most of the 

 seedlings outgrew either parent, their enhanced 

 vigor suggesting that of the hybrid walnuts. But 

 on the other hand some of them almost refused to 

 grow at all, being permanently dwarfed, and in 

 this regard suggesting a certain number of the sec- 

 ond generation of the walnut hybrids. 



[VOLUME XI CHAPTER III] 



