Indeed, it was the probably the fruit tree, giving an example of fixity of habitat, that encouraged man to give up the life of a nomad and establish a fixed abode.
--Luther Burbank

When you work with fruit trees you are permanent records. You are building on a rock. You are reaching out your hands to future generations, and erecting a monument that will remain as a testimony to your foresight and wisdom long after you are gone.

And doubtless, this fact of the permanence of the tree accounts in large measure for the interest with which almost anyone will take up the culture of fruits given the opportunity.

Not that we are always thinking of posterity; but one can develop an enthusiasm about the production of something having an element of permanency that does not attach to such transient things as annual or biannual plants.





from Luther Burbank
1916


from an old book found in the Library of Katrina Frey
of the Frey Winery.

His Methods and Discoveries and their Practical Application
1924



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