LUTHER BURBANK 



precisely such a change. But when the promising 

 wildlings from the Yosemite were transplanted to 

 my gardens they ran to vines and produced very 

 little fruit, although in their native habitat they 

 had borne abundantly. 



The experience was precisely the same with 

 certain strawberries that were sent from Alaska, 

 and from Norway, and in many of those from 

 Chili. When the Alaskan vines came to me, they 

 were fruited and they revealed an abundance of 

 splendid berries. But under cultivation in my 

 gardens they failed to thrive and such fruit as they 

 produced was of inferior quality. The new soil 

 and climate, which had proved such a stimulus to 

 Japanese plums and New Zealand rhubarb and 

 European daisies, and almost countless others, 

 proved a handicap to the Alaskan strawberries. 

 The new environment was not adapted to their 

 constitution. 



I have sometimes had the same experience with 

 other plants, including certain varieties of cur- 

 rants, blueberries, huckleberries, and raspberries, 

 as well as maples, beeches, hickories, and other 

 trees from the eastern United States. 

 New Hybrid Varieties 



But, of course, there are many other species and 

 varieties that have shown no such antipathy to the 

 conditions it had to offer, and I have produced 



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