LUTHER BURBANK 
ducing a peach-almond that would have flesh 
equal to the best varieties of peaches and a nut 
equal to the best almonds. 
Even now there are apricots that bear delicious 
nuts. Inasmuch as the apricot is already in this 
condition, there is no reason why the peach should 
not do the same. The apricot seeds of California 
are now nearly all shipped to France to make 
almond oil. 
At the time when the experiments above re- 
ferred to were carried out, however, it was not 
clear that a fruit combining the qualities of the 
peach and the almond would have great commer- 
cial value. The peach industry and the almond 
industry are so entirely different that the inaugu- 
ration of altogether new methods would be neces- 
sary to make them operable in combination. 
Hence the hybridizing experiments were not 
carried beyond the second generation, and the 
hybrid trees were thereafter used as stocks for the 
engrafting of cions that gave greater commercial 
promise, even though less interesting from a scien- 
tific standpoint. 
A NEw PeacH-ALMonp Cross 
A subsequent series of experiments was under- 
taken, however, to which reference has been made 
in another connection, in which the almond was 
combined with the purple-leafed peach. 
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