THE ALMOND AND ITs 
IMPROVEMENT 
Can It BE Grown INSIDE OF THE PEACH? 
after I began importing plants, I attempted 
to cross the Japanese plum with the almond. 
The cross was made without very great difti- 
culty, and the results were exceedingly interesting. 
Each species was fertilized with the pollen of the 
other, and here as elsewhere it appeared to make 
no particular difference in which way the cross 
was made. 
The hybrid seedlings partook somewhat of the 
character of the earliest of the hybrids produced 
by crossing the plum and the apricot. Most of the 
seedlings outgrew either parent, their enhanced 
vigor suggesting that of the hybrid walnuts. But 
on the other hand some of them almost refused to 
grow at all, being permanently dwarfed, and in 
this regard suggesting a certain number of the sec- 
ond generation of the walnut hybrids. 
| the early years of my experimenting, soon 
[Votume XI—Cuarter IIT] 
