Identifier: cu31924008976833 (find matches)
Title: Luther Burbank, his methods and discoveries and their practical application;
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Burbank, Luther, 1849-1926 Whitson, John John, Robert Williams, Henry Smith, 1863-1943 Luther Burbank society
Subjects: Plant breeding
Publisher: New York, London, Luther Burbank Press
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the production of somethinghaving an element of permanency that does notattach to such transient things as annual or bien-nial plants. The fruit tree in the old orchard is like an oldfriend when we get back to it. The mere view ofit brings up reminiscences of our youth, and thetree that we planted in childhood may remain asa stimulus to us in old age. There is no friendlier compact than that be-tween man and the fruit tree. It is an age-long compact withal. Not soancient as the compact of bees and flowers—foras compared with the archaic and honorable orderof insects man is a parvenu—^but far older thanhuman civilization none the less. Indeed, it was probably the fruit tree, givingan example of fixity of habitat, that encouragedman to give up the life of a nomad and establisha fixed abode. Not unlikely it was the evidence presented bythe fruit tree that first suggested to man the possi-bility of raising a supply of foods from the soil,and thus lured him away from the precarious (8)
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LUTHER BURBANK pursuits of the hunter and fisher and put him onthe road to future greatness. And all along the road of advancing civiliza-tion the friendship with the fruit tree has beenkept up. Yet it is only in comparatively recenttimes, probably, that rapid progress has beenmade in aiding our coadjutors of the pomologicalworld to step forward and better themselves asman had long ago bettered himself with theirassistance. To be sure, our forebears developedmany forms of fruit that were not lacking in pal-atability; but the great advances in the improve-ment of orchard fruits are matters of the nine-teenth century. Recent progress in this field has been almostas wonderful as progress in the fields of mechanicsand electricity. The orchard fruits of today that find their wayto the markets are so different in jsize and qualityfrom the fruits with which our griindparents weresatisfied—even though some of them are grownon cions grafted on the old trees—as to seem tobelong almost to di

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