LUTHER BURBANK 
It has already been recorded that the first gen- 
eration hybrids of this cross bore green leaves 
exclusively, but that purple leaves appeared in a 
certain proportion of the hybrids of the second 
and subsequent generation. 
In this cross, the purple-leafed peach was used 
invariably as the pistillate parent. There is every 
reason to suppose, however, that the results would 
have been the same had the cross been made the 
other way. 
Among the second generation seedlings were 
not only some with red leaves, but others that 
showed a combination of colors varying from the 
pure green almond leaves through different shades 
to the crimson leaf of the peach. 
There was thus exhibited a pronounced ten- 
dency to segregation of colors in certain cases, 
and a combination of the colors in others. 
Selection being made among the trees with the 
purple leaves, this characteristic, as might have 
been expected, reproduced itself, and a race of 
purple-leafed peach-almonds was developed. The 
fruit of this hybrid is purple fleshed, and as to its 
general characteristics it is a fair compromise be- 
tween the peach and the almond, not unlike the 
hybrid form already described. 
This form of peach-almond has considerable 
merit as an ornamental tree, and it will probably 
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