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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Indeed, the entire company of citrus fruits is characterized by exceeding juiciness of pulp, the bulk of the fruit being made up of water—with delicious acids and sweets instilled therein—merely intermeshed with enough thin fibrous tissues to give stability to the fruit structure.
These fruits are further characterized by the unique quality of the fruit-covering, which is painted with marvelous hues that are so unique as to have given their names to prominent pigments of the painters color box; and incorporate
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Sweet Lemon
To speak of a sweet lemon seems a contradiction of terms. Nevertheless there are varieties of lemon that are distinctly sweet. The one here shown has the peculiarity that the skin peels of readily, like that of an orange. The tree on which it grew will be utilized for further experiments in selective breeding.
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LUTHER BURBANK
curious series of minute oil wells laden with essential essences of no less individual quality.
These traits, among others, mark the citrus fruits as constituting a highly specialized and isolated group of plants.
It is not to be expected that any one of them could be hybridized with a member of any other family. But, on the other hand, within the bounds of the citrus family there is full opportunity, as I have already pointed out, for cross-fertilization.
I am confident that many interesting developments would have resulted from the hybridization of oranges and lemons and limes and citrons in my orchard had not the frost treated the tenderlings so harshly. Not unlikely there would have been developed new citrus fruits differing from any existing one as markedly as the plumcot differs from apricot and plum. This, of course, is only matter of conjecture for the experiments were cut short, as already told, before they passed beyond the early stages.

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