LUTHER BURBANK 



conditions think of the saving in not having to 

 pit them. 



The list could be extended almost endlessly, 

 from thickening the skin of the plum so as to 

 enable it to be shipped to South Africa and back, 

 as Mr. Burbank has done, to the production of a 

 tomato, which, when placed in boiling water, will 

 shed its skin without peeling — which Mr. Burbank 

 says can be done. 



Under the head of saving a plant from its own 

 extravagance might well come the large subject 

 of bringing trees to early fruiting, or of short- 

 ening the period from seed to maturity in shade 

 and lumber trees. Mr. Burbank's quick growing 

 walnut, and his pineapple quince and chestnut 

 seedlings bearing crops at six months, stand forth 

 as strong encouragement to those who would take 

 up this line. 



Then, too, under the same heading of fitting 

 plants to meet new conditions, whole chapters 

 might be written on how the fig tree could be 

 adapted to New England; or how Minnesota might 

 be made one of the greatest fruit producing states, 

 or how almost any plant might, in time, be adapted 

 to any soil or any climate. 



And, converselj% there is the broad subject of 

 adapting plants to special localities. The hop crop 

 of Sonoma County, California, the cabbage crop 



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