LUTHER BURBANK 



Thus it chanced that in the season of 1908 I 

 found among the cherries one that bore quite the 

 largest fruit I have ever seen; fruit, moreover, of 

 the most inviting color and having qualities of 

 flesh to match, Cions from this new stock will 

 be sent out and will in due course colonize many 

 an orchard with a new variety of fruit that is sure 

 to find great favor. 



But if I thus from time to time have pleasant 

 surprises, I am also too often chagrined to find 

 among my patrician cherries offspring that seem 

 unworthy. But of course one hears of black sheep 

 among the scions of even the noblest families, so 

 it is not surprising that the blueblood cherries of 

 Sebastopol offer no exception. 



And as the black member of any hmnan family 

 is always held up as a warning example, I have 

 thought that I might in the same way make the 

 black sheep of my cherry colony serve a useful 

 purpose by explaining somewhat in detail the rea- 

 son for their appearance. 



In so doing I shall be able, pe]^haps, to make a 

 somewhat clearer exposition than has hitherto 

 been attempted of certain aspects of heredity that 

 are peculiarly important from the standpoint of 

 the practical plant developer. 



Upper Cask Qualities 



We have learned something in earlier chapters 



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