. Luther Burbank: his methods and discoveries and their practical application. Prepared from his original field notes covering more than 100,000 experiments made during forty years devoted to plant improvement, with the assistance of the Luther Burbank Society and its entire membership, under the editorial direction of John Whitson and Robert John and Henry Smith Williams. landscape with their gorgeous array ofdeep crimson, scarlet, pink, and yellowish or whiteblossoms. Again, late in the autumn, they arebrilliant with bronzed leaves, and present fruitsof curious and interesting forms. This, o
. Luther Burbank: his methods and discoveries and their practical application. Prepared from his original field notes covering more than 100,000 experiments made during forty years devoted to plant improvement, with the assistance of the Luther Burbank Society and its entire membership, under the editorial direction of John Whitson and Robert John and Henry Smith Williams. landscape with their gorgeous array ofdeep crimson, scarlet, pink, and yellowish or whiteblossoms. Again, late in the autumn, they arebrilliant with bronzed leaves, and present fruitsof curious and interesting forms. This, obviously, is a very different tree fromthe common quince. It seems so distinct that Ihave never attempted to hybridize the two. ButI have crossed the various Japanese quinces amongthemselves. The crossbred seedlings vary widely in foliage,blossom and fruit. Some of the fruit producedwas as large as ordinary apples, and of varyingshape. Where experiments were made with thesub-species C. maulei, there was greater promisethan in the case of the other flowering sub-species is a more abundant bearer thanthe others, and its fruit is of less objectionablequality. The uncrossed specimens of this sub-species arelow, spiny shrubs, not more than two or three feethigh, with short, stiff, spiny branches, which areoften woolly when young. The bushes are multi- [234]. *i S •?• It 51 <» a * ® (« ^ 3 1* a c-3 =:I a 1 ~ •> a •« (\ 4 « ~-(c; a•S.^S-aS.^agf; •a§^53**0 S^«~~ «*«••»** a* *• *^ 5 2.*^ a* £ „ S -o a- ?. -Sa-- 2.*a»-^J ^ *-> ». WT* f» «2*2 o 3 ^1 3 LUTHER BURBANK plied readily by division; that is, from rootedsuckers, which spring up from the parent plantThe flowers, wliich are usually borne in abun-dance, are of a bright orange-scarlet. There areraces of the sub-species that have variegatedleaves tinged with delicate pink and white. This type of flowering quince has much torecommend it as an ornamental shrub. Moreover,
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