The Improved Giant 



These are the improved descendants of the black cherry 

 shoum on page 221. They represent perhaps the finest cherry 

 ever developed up to the present time, although still finer ones will doubt- 

 less appear in Mr. Burbank's cherry colony in succeeding years. All 

 the cherries in Mr. Burbank's colony are now 0/ aristocratic 

 lineage, and new combinations among them are made through 

 cross-pollenation each season. New seedlings are raised 

 and grafted into the colony, so there are always cions 

 on the tree that are not yet in bearing, and each 

 recurring cherry season brings its surprises. 



