Identifier: lutherburbankhis04burbuoft (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Burbank, Luther, 1849-1926 John, Robert Whitson, John Williams, Henry Smith, 1863-1943 Luther Burbank Society
Subjects: Plant-breeding
Publisher: New York Luther Burbank Press
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ting. Trees two years old have been reported asbearing fruit. From Florida a Van Deman quince is reportedthat took on eight feet of new growth within oneyear from the time of planting. In Washingtontwo trees in their third season bore twenty finequinces weighing from twelve to fourteen ounceseach as their first crop, and a little later a secondcrop declared to be quite equal to the other.Seedling Tests and New Crosses I had, of course, made crosses between variousother varieties in the quince orchard and in duecourse developed other seedlings that showedvaluable characteristics. I learned by experience to be able to selectseedlings of the quince, as of other fruit trees, byobserving the character of the leaf and stem. Seedlings having leaves that are large, thick,dark green, and glossy, and that show prominentrounded buds and upright branches with thick,bright wood are those that may be expected to pro-duce the largest and finest fruit. Worthless seedlings are known by the oppo- (218)
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Foliage of the Japanese Quince The thick, fibrous leaves of the Japanese quince add to the beauty of the tree. The branches, however, are likely to be apiny. The quince appears to represent a somewhat more primitive type of plant than most other of our cultivated fruits. Mr. Burbank suggests that the cultivated quince of to-day is in about the condition of development represented by the pear of the Roman time. LUTHER BURBANK site characters. Seedlings having small, knotted,twisted wood; slender, small, sharp buds; longjoints; woolly, wild-looking leaves, and irregularrambling tendency of growth should be rejected,as they will rarely produce fruit of any value. There are notable exceptions to these rules ofcorrelation between twig and foliage and fruit-quality, but, as a rule, the qualities just noted maybe depended upon to serve as useful guides. My second important new quince was grownas a seedling from Raes Mammoth, It was, I amconfident, a third generation seedling of a crossbetwee

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