Luther Burbank. His Methods and Discoveries. Vol. IV.
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- Item:
- Title:
- Luther Burbank. His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application. Vol. IV.
- Author:
- Luther Burbank
- Editors:
- John Whitson, Robert John, Henry Smith Williams
- Printer:
- Luther Burbank Press
- Place of Printing:
- New York and London
- Date of Printing:
- 1914
- Format:
- Language:
- McCune Location:
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Author and Commentators
Luther Burbank (1849-1926). Botanist and horticulturist. Born in Massachusetts, Burbank moved to Santa Rosa, CA where he created hundreds of varieties of plants.
Henry Smith Williams (1863-1943). Physician, lawyer, author.
The Book
This set of books were prepared from Burbank’s 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. Note: Some pages of this book are unopened due to a printing error and cannot easily be read.
Contents
- Foreword.
- I. Quick Possibilities in Fruit Improvement.
- II. Practical Orchard Plans and Methods.
- III. Doubling the Productiveness of the Cherries.
- IV. The Responsiveness of the Pear.
- V. Fuzzy Peaches and Smooth-Skin Nectarines.
- VI. The Apple – A Fruit Worthy of Still Further Improvement.
- VII. The Transformation of the Quince.
- VIII. The Apricot and the Loquot.
- IX. Citrus Fruits – and Fruits from the Tropics.
- List of Direct Color Photograph Prints.
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Half Sweet, Half Sour Apple
Title
Copyright
Chapters
Foreward
Plumcot
Chp 1 Quick Possibilies in Fruit Improvement
Orchard
Perfect Apple
Ideal Peaches & Others
Getting Color into Pears
Apricot
Dried Apricots
Nectarine
Crabapple
Making Over an Old Orchard
Chp2 Practical Orchard Plans
Box of Seedlings
Row of Plum Seedlings
Selected Seedlings
Nursery Stock
Choice of Seedling
Selecting Among Peach Seedlings
Orchard & Berry Field
Orchard & Vine Fields
Apple Orchard
Early Bearing Peaches
Mr. Burbank's 400
Chp 3 Doubling the Productiveness of Cherries
Cherries
South American Cherries
Catalina Cherry
Short-Stemmed Hybrids
Botan & Black Giants
Burbank's Abundance Cherries
Branch of 1909 Cherries
Other Nameless Seedlings
Some That Have Proven Worthy
Box of Burbank Cherries
Red Seedling
Chp 4 The Responsiveness of the Pear
Seedlings Pears
Long & Short of It
Broad & Sturdy Types
Introducing Color
A Patrician
Unhandsome but Luscious
Dissimilar Twins
More Misfits
Seedliing Pear
Ideal Pear
Seedling Pear Trees
Chp 5 Fuzzy Peaches
Flowering Peach in Blossom
Freestone Indian Peach
Exequisite Peach
Late Clingstone Peach
National Peach
An Unnamed Peach
Other Attractive Foundlings
Big String Nectarines
Bully Nectarine
Peach Triumph
Nectarine-Peach Cross
Nectarine-Peach Cross
Beautiful Seedling Apple
Chp 6 The Apple
Burbank's South Apple
Winterstein Apple
Burbank Seedling Apples
Roman Beauty Apple
Seedling Apples
More Seedling Apples
Nameless Peaches
Two Fine Speciments
More Nondescripts
Large and Toothsome
Gold Ridge Apple
Extremes of Development
Getting on in the World
Japanese Quince
Fruit of Japanese Quince
Foliage of Japanese Quince
Chinese Quince
Van Deman Quince
Santa Rosa Quince
Pineapple Quince
Pear Seedlings
Medlar - Cousin of Quince
Chp 8 Apricot and Loquat
Siberian Apricots
Japanese Apricot
Japanese Apricots Cut Open
Foliage of the Apricot
Apricot and Seed
Seed of an Apricot
Burbank Improved Apricot
Burbank's Improved Loquat
Bunch of Loquats
Blossoms of the Loquats
Loquats and Seeds
Typical Loquats
Fruit of the Guava
Chp 9 Citrus Fruits
Branch of Pomegranate
Pomegranate Fruit
Japanese Persimmons
Persimmons Tree
Sweet Lemon
Ponderosa Lemons
California Orange Grove
Cross between Orange and Lemon
Blossoms of the Feijoa
Grove of Feijoa Trees
Alligator Pear
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