LUTHER BURBANK 



selves among well-prized fruits of orchard and 

 market. And there are others yet to come. 



Meantime I should not like to predict as to 

 which among the fruits that now are confined 

 solely to the region of the Gulf of Mexico and to 

 Southern California as their northern limits, may 

 not within a century be growing and bearing 

 luxuriantly in the region of the Grreat Lakes. 



[End of Volume IV] 



— It should be recalled that 

 all of our fruits, even the 

 hardiest ones that now pene- 

 trate to the Arctic zone, must 

 have come originally from the 

 tropics. 



