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From this volume the reader will glean much of practical interest and value from Mr. Burbank's experience with laying out orchards, to making orchards pay, and to the practical management of orchards with an eye always to the bearing of Mr. Burbank's work upon the improvement of the human plant.
This volume was prepared from the author's original field notes covering more than 100,000 experiments made during forty years devoted to plant improvement.
| Foreword | 3 | |
| I | Quick Possibilities in Fruit Improvement--Specific Needs, and How to Accomplish Them | 7 |
| II | Practical Orchard Plans and Methods--How to Begin and Carry on the Work | 37 |
| III | Doubling the Productiveness of the Cherry--More and Better Cherries | 69 |
| IV | The Responsiveness of the Pear--What Has Been Done Is But the Beginning | 105 |
| V | Fuzzy Peaches and Smooth-Skinned Nectarines--Two Fruits Which Beg for More Improvement | 141 |
| VI | The Apple--A Fruit Worthy of Still Further Improvement--New Apples and How to Make Them | 177 |
| VII | The Transformation of the Quince--What Was Only a Cooking Fruit Now Dehcious Raw | 211 |
| VIII | The Apricot and the Loquat--An Opportunity for the Experimenter | 241 |
| IX | Citrus Fruits--And Fruits From the Tropics--New Experiments Well Worth Trying | 273 |
| List of Direct Color Photograph Prints | 305 |
Overview
This volume takes up, with greater detail, practical combinations of method particularly as applied toward producing new orchard fruits. In this volume Mr. Burbank covers practically all the simple orchard fruits except the plum and the prune.From this volume the reader will glean much of practical interest and value from Mr. Burbank's experience with laying out orchards, to making orchards pay, and to the practical management of orchards with an eye always to the bearing of Mr. Burbank's work upon the improvement of the human plant.
This volume was prepared from the author's original field notes covering more than 100,000 experiments made during forty...