LUTHER BURBANK 



as an apple, having completely dropped the objec- 

 tionable habit of producing wool on the skin. The 

 tree is vigorous; it grows in fine form; and it is an 

 early and astonishingly prolific bearer. 



The fruit has the cooking qualities of the Pine- 

 apple quince, and is superior for drying and can- 

 ning, and quite unrivaled except by the Pineapple 

 for the making of jelly. 



Testing Remoter CousmsHiPs 



It goes almost without saying that I did not 

 carry the work with the quince far before I under- 

 took to introduce new blood from more remote 

 sources. 



All the varieties hitherto named are descend- 

 ants of European stock, and are of the same spe- 

 cies. But the quince, like the other orchard fruits, 

 has Oriental representatives, — traces that migrated 

 eastward from their Central Asijatic home while 

 the parents of the European quince were migrat- 

 ing westward. In China and Japan there are 

 quinces that are listed as belonging to three dif- 

 ferent species, named Cgdonia sinensis C. japon- 

 ica, and C. maulei. All of these are quite different 

 from the European quince as to growth, foliage, 

 and fruit. 



As early as 1884 I began making hybridizing 

 tests with these Oriental quinces. 



Particular interest attaches to the experiments 



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