Seven ambitious brothers and how they bred a race of kings / editor: Henry Smith Williams, M.D., LL.D.

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[1914]
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Credit: Seven ambitious brothers and how they bred a race of kings / editor: Henry Smith Williams, M.D., LL.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    combined the racial strains of practically all known species of plums under cultivation. More than that, he crossed the plum with the apricot, producing thereby his wonderful new fruit, the Plumcot. So striking have been the results of this mat- ing of plums of diversified characteristics that more than sixty new varieties of plums, prunes, and apricots have been introduced by Mr. Bur- bank, constituting an extraordinary company of fruits that are revolutionizing the plum-growing and prune-growing industries all over the world. One-third of all the plums shipped from Califor- nia are now Burbank plums, and the best of his new varieties are of such recent introduction that they have not as yet made their influence felt, as they must inevitably do in the course of the com- ing decade. Other illustrations of hybridizing experiments through which Mr. Burbank has produced remark- able results—to mention a few almost at random —are given by his hybrid races of blackberries and raspberries, including the Primus berry, the Phe- nomenal berry, the White blackberry, and the Thornless blackberries; the Paradox and Royal walnuts, combining the traits of Persian walnut with those of the California black walnut in one case, and of the Eastern species of black walnut [10]
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