LUTHER BURBANK 



ducing a peach-almond that would have flesh 

 equal to the best varieties of peaches and a nut 

 equal to the best almonds. 



Even now there are apricots that bear delicious 

 nuts. Inasmuch as the apricot is already in this 

 condition, there is no reason why the peach should 

 not do the same. The apricot seeds of California 

 are now nearly all shipped to France to make 

 almond oil. 



At the time when the experiments above re- 

 ferred to were carried out, however, it was not 

 clear that a fruit combining the qualities of the 

 peach and the almond would have great commer- 

 cial value. The peach industry and the almond 

 industry are so entirely different that the inaugu- 

 ration of altogether new methods would be neces- 

 sary to make them operable in combination. 



Hence the hybridizing experiments were not 

 carried beyond the second generation, and the 

 hybrid trees were thereafter used as stocks for the 

 engrafting of cions that gave greater commercial 

 promise, even though less interesting from a scien- 

 tific standpoint. 



A NEW PEACH-ALMOND CROSS 



A subsequent series of experiments was under- 

 taken, however, to which reference has been made 

 in another connection, in which the almond was 

 combined with the purple-leafed peach. 



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