LUTHER BURBANK 



duce a ariety of pulpy fruits that stand in a class 

 by themselves and are quite without competitors — 

 or were until the quince came under the hand of 

 the plant developer in very recent times. 

 Early Migrations 



Which of the twain, pear or apple, was first 

 adopted, no one can say, but it is certain that both 

 were friendly with man even in prehistoric times. 



There is evidence from the ruins of remote 

 civilization of the Lake Dwellers of Switzerland 

 that the pear was known even in that day. Of 

 course it was familiar to the Greeks and Romans 

 from the earliest recorded periods of history. 



Long before that it had come out of its central 

 Asian home — if, as is almost cerfein, that was its 

 original habitat — and had become thoroughly do- 

 mesticated about the Mediterranean. Other 

 branches of the same race had migrated eastward 

 until they found a home in Chin^ and Japan. 



And in these widely separated regions, at the 

 extremes of the largest continent, the two descend- 

 ants of the primitive stock developed, each in its 

 own way, in response to soil, climate, and the di- 

 verse temperaments of the peoples, until the pear 

 of Europe was in many ways a different fruit from 

 the pear of the Far East. 



But there was one migration made by prehis- 

 toric man in which the pear, apparently, did not 



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