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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1913)
Bearing Crops wHen Six MontKs Old fc fm&L COT e?5' &"!& .- fjJrr w J F L 'C . - T . m . - t burhunK Pineapple Quince Seedlings DurbanK Chestnut Seedling Oni or tin- itini ip.ii i.ii iif hi I ullirr lluiluiik iiiir a a creator i( new mil heller form if plant lilr li.o hceu In ability ( hurry Nature ami in make her pro duce in a iMKlr raon tlir loulu which lie would prefer to take lirr own con venient lliur lir year, (even year, leu c.u to proditce. Ill ciratiiiR new forma (if plant life, lnrK quantity production and ipecd aru IkiiIi cateutial. The plant breeder known, at n eer taiiity, that (lit- u(TiriitK ( two diiTcrctil riit - - n ii( between them -will leproduee a combination of the chat ctcrutic uf thoe parent. lint jiut our human child of n liiunette father anil ;i liloinl mother may linvc ll niiitlii'r'a llii ' niul it fatli ('' ilurk hair; anil jiut an tin- n't cliilti if 1 1 ii muiiic parent nuiy itt'iiililc il f;illirr iii fcitiin-i nml it niotlirr in trm pcr.iiinni ami mi on uulk-h j it -1 . in iii.i t im k pl.mi it iiiixiililc to prcilirt jiil hIi.u i'iiimIhimIkiii of tin- parent cli.ir ."utni'tir will lc tipriiilmcil. Tin innrli, liowrxer, the plant lirretler tan ilu to proilurc n iletinite result : r -ii make ;i thoumnl, ten thuuainl, or a liiuitlietl tliouaitil eroiir; and he can lw urc that while no two will Itv pte einely alike, yet prji'lii'4lly every char aclrntK' of the two parent will lc te puimirril, in eoinlniutioti; ami that from no ureal a nnniher from which to nelert, lie ran liiul the oiTpiiiiK whieh rrpreoeui all of the Kootl iiulllie iloileil with none, or practically none, of the fault. lhuliiK prmluectt nn infinity of varietiet from which to nelect, the plant lireeiler imut wait, if the renutt ileoircil it n llower, until the cio lireetU have lilKiineil; or, if a fruit or n nut, until the cro hreeilt have home. Although lliero are certain ilrfinile known rule hy which imt of the umle Mrahlca can lie wei-ilril out from the lial I rl kcrillniK iMu after they luiw tl ur IicjiU ahovv the k'oiiiuI, yit the li'uil lluwcr or fruit or nut i the Mip,,in tct the only true proof of which of the new varieties is worthy to he acil ami ixrpetuntcil. Hy mcaiij, which there U not room to ilecrihc here, hut which are to he fully explniucil in the free imiiiourapln iMtcil hy The I.uthcr Hurhauk Society, l.utlicr Ilurliank lint lieeii nhle to sliortcu Na lnr procee o that hc rIvo him an altnott immcilinte answer as to the mic cent of hik e.periiueutk. The illustrntioiiM nlmvc arc typical of I. til her Hurhauk'.i methniU quince m-ciI liiiK o heaxily loailcil with fruit tl it they can hardly taml n chotuiit .sec I liiiK !n iiiDiiths old boariiiK' a cluster of perfect mil all done for the purpose tif proving some experiment of (.how iiiK which one or two, out of potMhlv ten thouaud cro-esi, is worthy of preservation ami propaKatiou.
