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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Making Over An Old Orchard Countless farms and dooryards of the United States have orchard trees in larger or smaller number that are practically useless. These can be made over, by proper grafting, .10 that they bear the finest varieties of fruits. The picture illustrates the way of rehabitatlng an old apple tree by grafting all of its larger limbs. The tree is thus entirely transformed, and may come to bear fruit of the most delicious quality. Practical Orchard PlansAND Methods How TO Begin and Carry on the Work WHAT kind of tree is that, Mr. Burbank?Seldom does an amateur visit myexperiment farms without asking thisquestion. And very commonly I am led to reply: Why, it is hardly fair to speak of that as atree; that is a concentrated prune orchard. If Iwere to name all the varieties of fruit that aregrowing on the branches from that single trunk, itwould sound like reciting the names from an or-chardists catalog. Nearly all my importantexperiments in developing a particular variety

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