LUTHER BURBANK 



character was presented by one after another of 

 the different records that made up the total of 

 more than fifty new hybrid varieties of nuts and 

 orchard fruits and flowers offered for introduction 

 in the pages of New Creations. 



The hybrid walnut, known as the Royal, one 

 parent of which was the black walnut of the East 

 and the other the black walnut of California, was 

 represented by its gigantic nut, depicted on the 

 same page with the smaller nuts of the ancestral 

 forms. And it was particularly noted that the new 

 hybrid had borne nuts in abundance, although the 

 other hybrid walnut, due to the union of the Cali- 

 fornia and Persian walnut, had not then borne 

 fruit. 



It may be added that the relative infertility of 

 hybrids between forms distantly related is recog- 

 nized in the course of the description of this sec- 

 ond hybrid walnut, in the statement that in its 

 failure to bear fruit it is like many true hybrids; 

 the writer having doubtless in mind such examples 

 as those furnished by the new plant called the 

 Nicotunia, a combination of the tobacco and the 

 petunia, which is described on another page of 

 New Creations; and the equally interesting hybrid 

 between the raspberry and the strawberry, also 

 described and depicted. 



These sterile hybrids, with which the reader 



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