LUTHER BURBANK 
The later defect is obviously one that requires 
only reasonable intelligence in the planting of 
different varieties in contiguous rows, so that 
cross-fertilization may readily take place, or the 
production of varieties with perfect blossoms. To 
overcome the defects due to too early blooming is 
a somewhat more difficult matter. 
Fortunately, however, there is a rather wide 
range of variation among different kinds of 
almond as to the matter of time of blooming. It 
follows that there should be no great difficulty in 
producing, by selective breeding, a variety that 
combines desirable qualities of nut production 
with the habit of late blooming. The difficulty has 
been that until recently orchardists have not rec- 
ognized the possibility of thus segregating and 
recombining characters, and they have “trusted to 
luck” in setting out their almond orchards, so in a 
large number of cases the profitless trees were cut 
down or regrafted to Burbank prunes. 
Latterly, the California orchardists have 
learned that there are two or three varieties that 
may be depended on, notably the Nonpareil and 
the Ne Plus Ultra, both of which originated in Cal- 
ifornia from seedlings grown by A. T. Hatch of 
Salinas County. These may best be polenized, in 
the opinion of experienced orchardists, by the 
variety known as Texas Prolific. 
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