LUTHER BURBANK 
others that combine the quality of the two fruits. 
The best of these bear fruits that are obviously 
peaches, even peaches of fair qualities, yet that 
have at their center what would be at once recog- 
nized as an almond nut, with characteristic shell 
and seed, 
In a word, these are almonds grown inside the 
peach—a combination of obvious interest. 
But this anomalous fruit, notwithstanding its 
interest, did not present commercial possibilities 
that could at the moment be realized. The peaches 
that thus bear almonds are not of the best quality 
as compared with recognized varieties of commer- 
cial peaches. Neither, on the other hand, were the 
almonds borne by these peaches of a quality to 
enable them to compete in the market with the 
best varieties of commercial almonds. 
What had been produced, in a word, was a 
rather inferior peach bearing at its core a rather 
inferior almond. The combination has obvious 
scientific interest, but it has no immediate com- 
mercial value. 
There is no reason to doubt that a continuance 
of the experiment in which selection was made 
among the best specimens of this hybrid fruit, 
together with further hybridization in which the 
strains of the best peaches and the best almonds 
were successively introduced, might result in pro- 
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