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LUTHER BURBANK
PLANT MAGICIAN

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·LUTHER
BURBANK
PLANT MAGICIAN
by
JOHN Y BEATY
1960
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DELHI - JULLUXDUR

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Puu hy sy lal Qupte, Proprietor & Chand & da
Poniato Duhudpe P W Du

·DEDICATED TO
JY VIOTHER
Mas. D G BEATY
Who first taught me ta enjoy
this beautiful world which
Luther Burbank made stall
more fasanating

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·THE LUTHER BURBANK I KNEW Yo all Luther Barbook o plant maglolan bouko ho perlontood fats vlth plants which were 4 startling uibo illoslop of tho staro magiclan Ho mudo a rod flower from a yollow oo Ho made to song of plumi dipper Ho mund tho deert odotos to grow a thouand turned fester than it had over grova beforo. Ho made a blackberry whito Ho mado 500 kinda of bertio grow on ono troo. Lother Burbank wo tbo lingt man to doroto bha otro Hmoto crouting now plante, and ho mocnodod in prodao Ing more wroful new verlotion of fruita, foron troon vigotablove, and vioo than any other person. I domor stratod Naturor ability to provide mankind with now food to almost endlos vorlety and hod volopod a method fo belping Nature to orato now planta moro qulakly Ho ropognal to ou . gift of the Creator which to bo unod to the fullost ortont, and ho llrod a happy lito of moventy-Hovon your book ako ho continually ned to bo toful. Ha ox portonoo Wustrator a way of work ing to mako a dream come true which aan bo followed boy aby boy or girl with a goul in mind. The_boy and girl in Bento Rose, Oudfornia vbero Lather Barbank lived knew blm um frond Hello, Ir Burbank, they would shout u they parod hla garden. No matter bow busy ho mu ho would stop maro his hand ind all back, I worked with Ir Ba benk to the proper bol in which lio told th story of his mer experimente. My olico was in hla old bom, spent ut lost in boar each day latening to modurorlpt I had written Ai Other with him throth hu terden ·LUTHA. ALATT through his orchard. Ho vould plak . plom, tasto it, od ! it pleased him be would plok sothor Do liko it and bend it to mo Ho vould tell Do what bo kod about tho plan- or what mo Tong One day I www.king with him through so nero of gledloll. Each plant to that we w now variety ud ho wou wlooting those to be rotalnod for fatoro work I always waked behind him, and did not spot to him, anul bo stopped to rest and offered to talk. On thls day ho suddenly wirled around and with hla ortretco frankom mld Say Iko you. You know enough to keop your mouth shut. Most people who o mo with me into my garden jobber Jabbor all tho umo, and don t give you chanoo to think. Thle to hard work I am doing I am trying to docido vhother to koop ach flove or destroy it And I can t bo bothered with peoplo uking mo questions antil I rtop to rost. Boomwo of the unprodlotable things whioh Mr arbank accomplobod, the nowpapers of tho country quently publlabod fantastio stories about his work Ono story vu that bo had comod tho beo and tho lightning bug that the boo could work twenty four boun a day 1 Anothæ vu that he had cromod tho milk wood and the pumpkin vine so that pumpkin ples wero produced in the garden As a revalt of this pabloty ho was somotłaso Irrita tod by tho Largo nombori of vuitor who amo to woo him from all parts of the U Ited States, and other parts of tho world. Somo peoplo ano entirely out of cartodty for hla famo had trolled for wide Bomo kod to rotum bomo after . trip to my "I u tho Chest Burbank. If there pooplo bud nothing important to ay to him and if tboy had no intelligent quartiomes to unk, ho felt that talklog with thom un rellous loos of timo. After having been Irritated by ruch valton ho omotima vald Thomo people come here to look at me ·TID LOTHA DUDA IDI Ito o animal in . ago. I ant nusto my timo vith thom ly Hmot worth . huadrod dollars . minuto. The does not mean that ho nu pot friendly or that bo nu dioportcott Ho pomotme spent two hours with quo penon-$11 000 vorth of tim at his own atlmated value-Amply booles that pernd utod Intol Igent quoatlont and proved to be an intelligent stoner lbllo thero word times bon certain rock had to bo attended to without delay 11 nu seldom that Mr Burbuok me too busy to rou vldtor vbo mu ganolnois fntorested in plant development Howwe unay willing to share hib knowlalgo and orporienon, all during h 1H. 11 Durbank onoounged wolentista, nurserymon woodamen, und erloultan authorities to plait ha ground and comment on what they my Honu may free to tell what hls objectiro me and any froo to ovplata how the progres obrerred had been obtained. Ho had no pocrita H enfogod taldng with anyooo bo undontood hilo work, On 02 ocasloo ho had tho plouaro of antertaining Thomas Faloon and Henry Ford at tho mmo um Tho throo men woro rory much aliko to that they all had tho unbition to wrto mankind. And they all realized that tho vay to do it nu to study amostly plan uteme toally and go the utmost attention to dotella Thoy enjoyed such other company boost of the mlarity in their natura 1r Edbon wouldered Barbeak so threator and Hr Ford nu particularly fooldated with the mu prodaction toshniquo lr Bar bank carried out with plents, and which was amilar la poodiplo to the many prodootlen In Ur Ford = entombilo plenit By tho tlmo bo nu uity three youn old, Lathor Barbant bad crostod and Introduood for mani U two hundred and twenty now nedettes of troes, rugotables fruits und florat. Ho started to work with the potato Ivort doky and boan in 1872. Ho started with bleat ·4 LUTTII DIZAJI 1p 1874 Ho or perimented with the gooooberry black berry rapberry Janobrary Altawberry and onstant In 1878 Prunet mere ul led in 1870 JA 1881 in addition to itinalag work with tho prorlowly damed planto ho adde! tbe peur quino ruoh ohortnet loquat and the porton begin work in amont nith plumde Tapes, and tho resbona la 2883 In 1896 ho addort work with apptos and almondo In 1887 tomato experiments were begun Wo might go n nod on naming additional plants which voro added to hla parum cach your bat eroth hero to emphasizo that the plants propionly montioned woro 111 grorng by the tbonun Ik Interest in thom ron perpetael It wall lo vory Jiaoult t MHEDURA Any plant wbloh do not havo hta attendon at momo time Horestal worenty-threo Dow flower Holotrodrocel Ity-a new krwt of fruits which gm on trres, and twolno nw frult which grow on busker, Ho produced nido my voortabler om grap ndo new groninnt when ne v treo nts, and thirty in rurfotter of an kind of cotos frs for Jing lifettoot It lo importo to compito completo list of all tho Dvorletter of plants Lnther Barbank utol any of thom wero mold to al mon and narrty men who gTO thom now names without any referonoo to their orizioa tor 80 of them much as tho Sbwa nal , haro Lecomto onnamm that no reference in modo in many pood otdogkien th not that they woro originated by Jatbrt Berbank Anxl many merlemon lot pororot vorieties of tbo Shetta lalu Nomorer to lixt me thood of this book of tro ondre and lng frur bow rarlottery representing more than fortynix diformat httle of plants vill Dlostrato tbo wide variety of roch bo ald. Among the most interesting of the now planta produard by tble plant wuglaien, Port The white blackberry u

·TH. LUTIER DORBAN I DW
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Spinelow actus which products moro food for liratook
In one your than any other plant, płomu large than
Any before known to men cherries thet are ready to
at la Pobruary • rbite dany larger and moro bezatt
fol than ury Motoro bad prod ced without bla belp
plum ltboot rood ud . delloot blackberry
whore stems had do pricha watorer
Most people think that only . plant mog cun could
Indaco Naturo to make mich dnutio change but funt
u tbo trick performed by the magician oo tho storo
roelly very emplo fon operation the mothode med by
Lothor Bærbenk to perform bu plant Dugi vo mmplo
Thoy, aro method which can be used by yooo bo
would liko to help Neturo create now and Interesting
planta
JOUX Y BLATY

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·LUTHER BURBANK PLANT MAGICIAN ·I A BOY ASKS WHY I" Luthor w34 lging na blg flot stono lain bero foot partly cor red by the nater in tbo pond Ilo mus watobing a mal feeding on rater plant. BI ing slowly but shoudily tho mull crawlod to . leaf of tbe plant jus bel th morfaco. Thon till matohing Luther blinkod od rubbod his oye bcoumto bo could not tollero what ho tow Th oull nu mlklog upoldo down on tho under sarfsoo of the very thin film that oovorod tho water! Roonu Lather could not so tho alim it seemed though th on Woro walking on nothing Thon ho began to realize that tho mall did huto nomothing to wak on after all H. bod board some of the men who viilteu hls fotbor toll of tho film which covers the surface fall wator bat it had bevor womed to him that the Alm oooh! strong enough to bold np. wulght Ilko that of tho 80 saail. Lutber could see the mouit's you at tho bave of two long Colors. Whon one of thomo foolor touchod anotbor plent the sonil stoppal and a plored morlog tho foelona thla ny aod that. Then it walked down to loaf of tho nov plant. Wblo tho mall wu valking up do down on tho under parfoco of the rates Alm Lother could ro its mouth opoping and change though it hoped to find another plent leaf It oo ld ohov Ho could see tho way it one foot operatel. Wbile 1 wall soemu to moro rory slowly tho part of tho ung foot oun bo roon to more nther rapidly uit gta just below the water warfaoe. The call started to cat the loaf of the Dow plant on which it had foon la posting place. Lather wutobod It for bilo longer til his mtention Tus attracted by an other olmal-ona ho had not soon before. It vuorong ·DOT . TIY 0 Rowly ap the stom of Lottall plant It vu light browo in colour and about two inchoa long. It had rulega Blowly the unimal or vled and when it mu about olgut inoba sboro the water ft stopped and romolnod vary still Lothor ntobed It until bo beard the form bell vhlah his mother nung to all the family to lanch. Ho returned In the afternoon and then noticed that the shell of tho animal vu beginnlog to crack along the back. That in tlo world could be happening to tbb forect? Ho bud copoluded that it wou na tanoot, berzuur only insecta buvo di legn As tho oruck grow largor Lother could meo that thero Fue poftokin inoldo. And be could so that this adireals louide bouly vu poubing against tho ontaldo shall thus making tho opening wider and wider Aftor bovenal mlnntar tho appor portion of the animal wu pulled from the abell, and then Lather co k noo that It vw the body of a dragonfly At Longth tho tall portion amo o t of tho obell. Then tho wings slowly unfolded, for they had been tightly proud agulot the back As th lng unfolded they werd #rotobod out at tho ddes and anally they boondo rigid Luther wu o furonated by this gruogo trana forroztlon that he forgot abo i tho um end w lato for Duple At homo ho told by father was bo had con You wat bhe father you have soch dragonfly breuk through its chaton and enter into adult lifo Bat why does a drygonfly Uro to the watertuled Latbor "The greater part of. drgo tyllfo in sport on the bottom of pood or stream, he father plained. It doent look dngonfly then. It loola ko the animal you are up the stom In that sy of its lifo we call it & Dymph "The mother dragonity ly bet og in the n Wbea tbo beblas aro herobed out of the gen they ·10 LUTIINI BULUK tho bottom where thoy find thels food. Tbo dragonfly nymph osta all sorts of tiny living alou, gent quantities of them. In fact, it will out another nymph 1 lt an find one Does it awlm: wed Luther N While it is in the water it is able to moto about by waing ito legu. It alo Kuirts water from the rear ond of Ita body to forco itall qulokly horo and thoro Bat after it la transformod into . full-grown dragonly and lives abor tb rutes It can sore about only by tying It has de lep, bat t con t use thiom for walking. Tbo lep uro plooed as to malo a basket or trap with which it can outch mosquitoa and other flying facts u It dorts through tho ar Why does it ontoh Inaoctal ukod Lather "Thilo it llen, it bolda thu baukot near to its mouth and on to what t be caught sold his father When it abights og plant som it does not walk It must tako olt from tho mondo spot on whloh it landed Its logo are made for catching fooch. Thoy sro not made for walking." Daring tho many trips Lather mado to tbo pood ho obeerved tadpolen, mindor, turtin, frog, craytub rod wagod blockbirds, beronu and that strong animal, tho loooh. Ovo day he found . largo loooh-about two inobes long-attached to tho snck of sturtle It mus fat beauro It had just enjoyed , full meal of turtlo blood. Lather took it homo and placed it in a jar of water by itwall Por rotorul montba, ho kept it tbla ray with out food. It is true that the locah wu thon maller than ben be put it into the jar but dotatholou it vu still wre. By the experiment, be learned that a leoch may livo u long us your on one meal. Leochoa Aro romelma oled bloodrucker And Lodood, that ha a good dame becaur thoy mack the blood of volmala. Thoy do it in roche way that the vleum does not italize that thoy eno stalbug the blood to un Hoolf noode.

·A BOI A. "
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Tho loooh hu sherp teeth with which it poncton tho
dn and to blood role. But it frutantly injecta.
ftold wbloh affoote tho barva to ach a way that thoy do
not ad. momago of pain to the brain of the animal
In other words, tbe lcooh an pack blood from an emal
witboat onaang any pain at all
Lather might havo learned the thing about water
plants and mello, dngopiles und leoche, by rouding
ultor bo w older But he always remembered what bo
now for himself in the pond and what his father waid in
answer to his questions

·WHAT FARM LIFE TAUGHT Living things farctooted young Lather Burbank Ad ho spent most of his timo learning about tho plants and animal bich hlp to malo this world å lentiful pleco As if to preparo lm for tbo impor tant to he mu to kako of tho heredity and antiron ment of plant life bu early enrlrondent and hla family belped him to grow up the knowledgo of the country Luthor Burbank was born on Alaroh 7 1840 on farm near Lancaster Veruchusetts As a baby ho most haro louked out on the law and olm treca blanketed with tho mov of tho lo g Now England wintor Bot Irido tho big red brrok farmhoum boated by log fry, it ww warto en ugh for bables wd house plants to be comfortable Lutho mother wu fond flors and the found who could keep the lmby bappy and qulot by giving him. flower to bold in bb own band Turniog tb blousom la tlny fingon ho would look at it mrlowly ourlowly und forget to cry As tho baby from tho world changed his father Bampel Walton Burbank, owned many scrc covered with troes which wero out for lumber He also owod. clay pit from whileh bo took clay for making pottery and brickSo thero wu alwayı bomo Internaung aotivity to tako growing child oataldo tho homo. Ilost important of all, thero Tus a meadow • stream and a manb in which all sorts of living things attracted the attention of tho boy u ho grow older Lother started robool at the usual go und altbourh ho was eager to learn abool mu pomowhat of a trial bo auso be wu . rery Hmll child It ru the oustom for auch scholar to sand before the entire whool to recto. That vu most dificult for Lather After the toucher realed ble timidity and allowed him to writo hla lowoda, ho got along much better I robod you coodacted in a little one room rod brick balding in the wood. It tu beld ofery day of tho ·TTAT TAL LUI TAUGHT 13 Toek, cicopt Sanday. Honorer only othar Batonley afternoon wo half holiday Thle belf-bolidayu Dederary to allow the children s mothes to wash their dothon. It wou oortomary for och child to hero only Opo mult of andorreer word the children had to go to bed while tholt under our nuwubed Bunday nuqulot day boonude coording to custom at that Hmo ovo 8 valk to the woods vu dot driebto on the Sabbath. Howover Latbor. perenta, talling bow much he loved the wild things, Foro not pery str t on this point. Although Lather mu rery fond of th out-of-door, much of his time wu speat in mulong thlog mado windmils and water wheole Ho modo statouary ud oma mental pottery from the olay in bu futhor pat Luther mother Olive Row Burbank, wus bry father'. third wife and tho bad two children boforo Lutbe but both f them died in folanoy Latbor was the oldest f bb mother's ferally when his mother later had tw other chilldron, boy and girl HL father older hildren bad all pono away from bom to work by tbe tlmo Lother wu ten years of so it vu baturul that h buokl feel oonidorablo responsibility for bolpłog hla motbor in our tog for bh brothor and stat He also spent much timo in bolpo Alict with bor flowen und ggetabler Even beforo bo mu ton year I Lath realbued that thlu 1 o beautiful and vooderſul world and he wanted to know more about it. Ho wanted to ko why womo plants grov under the water while thers grow only above the ground why om trees buvo broert lad os and othor bero louvou DANTOY uncollo H tried to Auch hor now plants were prod and und okloneo por onded t duonge their habit of growth He ronderod whether it would be powalblo to Improto or hasten tho proctwa ! Naturo-fr rudple to mako pinato grow futter tbat b's motbee might have flowen and rope tablou endle in the poing Eventoully bo wu to find anrun to llt to and to mako practical ro of the Informati + ·S A GREAT MAN GIVES A GLUE Th Bu bank hours had to be largo onough to hold, not only tlo largo family of ohildren (Lother wubb father thirteanth child, but the blogers taches and looturem vlinm his father colored entertalama. Somo of the world a greatest scientinta como to Lanaustet whilo Lather vun boy lod stayed us walton on the Barbank farm Although I thor or that the toportant non would bo Lallding about somothing that bo wanted to Teem ho tu mo timid that lodd oot enjoy meeting the atrugore But ho did want to boar what they had to wy 1 oftes ut un tbo ground on todo a opon window to hour hl fatbor uk quotioon and the raitor answer tora Evory fact thw ducoTored was trouant to him because he has very for books to read. As a matter of fact of the earurt to he questiona vore to lo found w books at that timo As bo grow older he becamo la timid and be then uked questions hlmwell. lo that my ho was able to lourd mon cod more Profonor Lari Sumner Burbank, ha fatber's brother oftallrod at Lother hot for bovarul rock, at a timo H. Fs to chart of the department of geology in the Houm of the Boston Society of Natural History and ho made many long tipe vith the famom on Hot Loud Aranha Latoer wou very fond of hb Unclo Lort, who Mwilling to tato bb young Depbort into the folde and woods and tell him interesting things about Natpro. With bla melo belp Lother leamod that ho conld undertand many of Naturto recreta i ho tudied the foren, trees, insects and larget animals for himsell, Ohlen instead of playing games with other children bo walked throach the wood and into Dearty Belda to on ·OLHAT WIYE: LUD 10 what tho motorerting living things were doing Ho uw tho Lowo thruxt up thoir ant laura to the spring Ho my tho all petals of the bloot appour Ho watchod the bees us thoy warriod pollen from one flower to an The ho Ay tho for ptala fall, and tbe pod pode develop. In this way bo urly lamed that muy foron livo ther completo lives in ono short XLOG. The rood ger minates to the spring the plant diem to the fall But bo obeerved that other plante, Ilco the trees, Hyo much longer live. Some of thom llro longer Urow than men. Somo planta, he aloo dwoovered livo pory roago lirom and do quoer and unexpected thing Lutbor bed notlood a certain kind of plant in the pood whloh grov entirely below the rurface of the water Nono of it onmo aboro. It had very fine leator, and Lather thought that ho my little bago on the stora hero and thero Odo morning, whilo bo w Istog on tho fiat stono looking for something pov tho mn thopo on tho vator in och my m to light op th placo wboro thero vero overal of thote laulo bagr. Luthor wrom thay animals wlm into one of the began Fo welted to sou them como out gali but thoy did not resppour A Little later bo wothoorwm ia. Nono omo out. Tuo be looled at moren of the other bagu Ooou klooally bo w little almal own into thom but notor da bo vo mny como out. 'What in tho world to happea to those little anlat bo wlod bimoroll That oroning in the Iring room 2 porno, bo told Professor Lori Burbank what he had seen. The profonor wu grautly thereutod TYzero vu the plantt ho uked. "Ir it to the pond,” al Lather Thle I vu on tho rtono, I RY Any colmat, wo into little ·16 LUTHER BULAN which grow on tho tom of the plant. Dozon und dosen of little spoola mo into the bar but dono over amo out. Why nu that That nu becrose tho plant to them oxplained Lori Burbank. But, Uncle Lovi hor aan . plant out animelt oskod Luther "The plants you may uld tho wolentat do not get All of tho elomants thov neod out of the food in the water Thoro ero certain things in the bodies of animals which ther plants must har Bn thoy ero provided with traps in which to aptar fond Bat how did you bappen to do tło littl unimaka aught by the bladdorwort planti Is that what tho plant ballerd? uked Lather "c, ald tho teacher "tho trape and called bladders. WAL, Lather ciplained tho ran i whining on tbo wat in roh a way that I could wo very clearly I v little proks moving near the plant and I watotied me of tben went into the bladdorn, I dln t know what was beproning 1 dl in t kam tho plat w going to out them Benidon the blueldorwort povrtal otber plants et anlmal." kl tbo profesor Blont of them grow in mp and bog Soveral of ther plants and called pitebor plants brez un momo of their hands are mado into pitohern Inwoots crawl in from the top. Aftor they got load do they canot got out Thore plants grow oboyo tho ground but their roots uo In wet soil. Ritcher plants autorets just as the bladder mort ata tiny animel. There is another plant continuod tho klonta, viloh wo call the mindow It has como some whloh hero rounul do on tho and from wblob project tlny 410. On the end of each um sa aticky abrience. If an faroot alights on one of thero dimo, the dire qulokly fld du anma tomarlla tho antro Thero AITO CODO logotber that the inxet annot get ont ·AMWAY GITAA OUT 17 "Well me Lother "I know that animals at planta, but I did not know before that some plante et inal Every livi g thing woems to dopood apoa comething els doon t Itt Yod uro rigbt, Lather muld tho klonte some planta belp almal other planta help plante roman olmulo belp plaats end somo animale balp other ani mal Bat at the 12mo tinto thero ere bomo enlmal which prog opon other onlmul, and womo plants which prey up other plant. There are plent, for example whloh got all_f their living from others. Wo oull thom paraten They aundo direct thoir own food so they Hro on other planta and take food vhloh tho borto com pound in thet leeren." PLANTS THAT DRINK A BTREAT DRY Nour tho pond wusmall otroum ful f water in th sprtor but mually by the Brot of July tho nitar a gono. Lothor wandered along the little stroam, und von aftor the art of July be foond KIDO Mater to the appor pert bat further dowo where tho onttal inod tho bed thoro wu no water Luther hed often wondered what Loured this Now that he bad a chance to talk with. solentat, bo naked why thoro wu do wutor la tho lovor part of tho strom. "Tho cattelle drink all the water * explained Professor Burbank Oh, but, Daolo Lord, objootod Lather [dou think tho atta boald dink o mocb Thoro is roully quite lot of motor in the upper part of tho strom You voall be por primed to know how mu h nate attula en drink wkl the menta. "Cattale often dink. strom dry" Just bow dow • plant denkt Luther unted to пот The profesor tbeo erplatsed that a plant tak water oat of the poll with a roota Yator goes to the leaves ·18 LOTHER BULLYI and some of it tied thoro ha tho making of food bat most of it puud on into the air Tho aattells, whom they drink a lot of water as they do won thero fplenty of water in the stream giro oft great quantities of ft into the ar As a matter of fact all land plante give off stor foto the alr bat ottal planu naporato more than marty othort. It has been learned for example, that an acto of gran oan gro off 19 much udi tons of ratar in ono day! Woll mured tho bog after llatoning to blamdo, overy plant rooms to have something about it that bu vory strango I want to know more aboat planta Luthor wantod to learn moro in ordor to do more bo had decovered that those who understood the way of planta cold indeed work with Nature to change long autoblohed bobita ( growth When ho we only fourton your old his Unolo Loul taught blm how to out . amall brunch from one trno and get it on anothor In th way be wu abbo to mako paura grow on an applo tree, und apple grow on a pour troo Latbor's mout Imp portant lemon vu lamod frum tho great whentist, Loub Aganels of Harvard Untrondity * Oambridge Namechometta. Lather did not go to Cam bridge the great man omo with Profemor Lori Barbank on one of ble vata to the farm Whllo Dr Aglab wu veltlag with his father Luther managed to ok several questions about the way now plants no tede. De Agarls onplained that boforo . nood aan bo formod the pollon of onio plant must bo brought by the wlad, by the water by a bird by on tored or by meo od some of it must beootto Attechod to the little ingor collod the pistil bloh thelly found to the centre of the flower The end of the pistil ba sloky When the polloa odborow to th, it dovelop into a pollon tabo which gron dowo through the stem of the platll und into the oralo Thoro thosperme to the pollen fan with the tiny fomelo calls „bloh than grow into pooda ·OUT MAT GIVES A QUI ID Soods however are novor made erlated Profewor Arsi, uolen pillen le brought to the platill. If tho pollen comes from foret of different variety the mode will grow foto planta which may bo better or may be much lou trefal than the plant on bleh tho keeds grow Howryet tho two planta rapplying pollen und plurimot be related, they must belong to tho mo species of geot "Then" ald Luther "tho way wo get new varletler le to tako the pollen of do plant and pat it on the flower of anothert "Enotly 4good the great solentat. "Whon wo do tble, vo belp Naturo bring about improvements. That wo do if we dogtroy all dow plants which are of bom Yuluo tban tbomo wo already have. "For onample you might prodane tborrmand woods by Groning tbo pollon of co plant with another and only ono of the thoumod might grow into = p nt which was better than the plante 70 krondy havo Allowed the other nino hundred and ninety-nine to contion to grow the world of plant hfo would be como low wofal rather than moro uwful Natpro hos way of destroying thero lens wotul plante but man greatly belp her "By Willing reeds pagronted Lather having In mind his own experience in hla motber'ı gerdon. But brre Dr Agua Dedo mnothor important ober- Tatlon WTV often all woode posta whoa thero ero too many of ono kind. When great quantities of them Interfero with crop, wo dentroy thom but to allod Woede muy bo dovolopod into rolable planta. Porbap Luther did not rellso ft then, bat in the short lesson giron blm by famous naturelle, ho bed the beda for his foton lifo work Dr Agamla bed told him bor to be . plant magidan In tho den that foll vod, Lothar mada loog toto tbe told to wody planta Oome day whille ha If you

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·LOAT XA QITA LUI only when it frut opent. It Docenery to transfer the pollra fout u pon u pouble etter the blonom hu begun to spread its petals I lo decorurod that the black bord in the centre of • black eyed Sunn made of many tiny town. Ooo flower . tiny tabo in the centro of which is to put and the same and there are many of these thy tubos In one dom bond. Profesor Barbenk erplained to him later that the black eyed Bon called compoulto flower become the potak surround. great many to of patla od starone tostoed of 000 st. The compodte hus many flower arroandod by one group of petals. As bo studiod tb. blomoms in the folds d y after day Latbar began to realizo that he could control conditiona botter if bo had romo of these planta be bis garden. At the timo the thought on to him ho vu walelog throagh Bold of ovoyi dalola. H selootad two planta which ho thought ho would like to work with sod, beving Do tool but his pocketkniſo with him bo apent belfun boor carefully digging tbeo pleats out of the ground. Bo took thom bome und plentod them to a manny pleco In bla garden, Thoro bo nato od over thom crefally hon hi futbe ny thom, ho uid, Lather I wish you would do thoro reeds out of the garden and destroy Oh bat father ploudod Lather I planted them there. "You-you planted thom!" pattored ble father murod. "Why did you plant woods in our gardeal It ta hard cough to go out those which surt by thoror" "I want to try to produco we now retetlen, sold Latbor "Now Turketles of modet und his father "D Ho bero coagh Foods uit tot The poor farmers plain bitterly boat there are too pumy 1:0

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·Later he mus to lour tho kalta to that questioo. When the blouson oame, they proved that the Toulog of flowers by ozcbangtog pollen doet practor great vartoty of Dow planta. Bat none of the bloc Turoully bountilul lor of them were very try they Lathor thod th bla mother about the detay I not deles" boxplused, "bich! bloh has e blonom Tomu luger than a Over kun. Not one of the DOS EXPERIMENTO WITE WEEDS do Lather carefully transferred the pollen of to two dawy, plant he had brought from the field be hoped that bo muht harvest worla to produco por Turistin Ho took the pollon from one plant and put it on the lowers of the Brat one. In that may bo crowed the pollon both nya. Ho nito aurely for the woods. Whoo they ripened by oollooted them ourofally Ho planted them tho next Jur with high hopes. By this time ho led later stod bla Dother in what be us dolog end bo on potraped him in his operiments Ho notebod the bod to which the cada mero pluntod and Loured many tow prindplea of plant life Au sou u tho nordelles begun to bow abovo tlor , bo mov that each ono nu diferent. Bome PT fuster than others somo wao a darker green tban Somo some vero o verod with fino alle ob n vero Doro Dearly obooth. Try u bard u bo vould be could Lot And two planta which were eactly allo At firok, this dletur bod him. "If everything ent, he ulced himoll how.can I multiply new flower If I do not rurfoty I wat to keep word all dappointing fcrulta of his or porlmont. content planta worth keoptog ·2 LUTUR DUBANK Perhaps you shoulda t crpoot womething better from ibu roll ngaber hos m ther sogoutoch It may be that there is only cao better towar ia mung many thorunch It poolblo that you may work in onturo lif time to prodao just the type of Howor yod Tunt Bromo of these plante may holp you in faturo cromou. Why dont you hant for a better tower la tho field and bring to jollen hero to pat on some of themel Lathor followed bla mother roggestion, but tho roulu tho following your woro fast dlappointing us thomo f the first. Then Lathor admittod to his fathor that bb otfort had not brought the hoped for rovulta. What are you going to do with thom now woude you beyo arautodi ukod hlfacher I am going to pull them out and burn thom, Hald Lather morrowfally Dr Agewals uld that now plant which a low toful than the ones we havo xbould bo Aod thoro aro won than tho dallon in tho Thoy ero all now verlotion, but none of them any good That is a splendid Idol held his motber Than you havo monothing you aro raro ls valandom It ta boat to wuto do moro time with it Lutbor did not rooliso it, but that statomout of his mother wu to bo important in ble futuro work. Auhla ufo bo made it bls praction to burn thom plants blah vero valactor, just a mon u bo wus word that thoy would not be useful to him to further tosta. Lather burned the woods us ho had promised but us bo rood motoblog the firo bo coatinged to baro valor of the dały bo rould liko to produce It mot bo very large bo repeated to hlouolf, und It murt bo very whilo. A whito delay with a yollow I contro ipinai green background of folla go rould be tho most beanth flora in the world. I know now that I an produo Dov nerieties, I shall koop on tylng until I at the mom fore I not, ·Inn Tha FEEDS Lother 1 ruly sperlorents want tot confided to the dany Ho collected one of the low England uteri wbich had porpla foren, carried the pollen from 006 to tho obor and naked plante from the rode Ho aurrlod on pady esperiments that his father complained that bo Id turned the vegetablo garden lato . Beld of woed. Lather's mother boworer oiplaned to hla father that the boy w leuning some Important lewons and to lhtlo mount of ground bo ured ru no lom, boonam Luther wu taking good ouro of the repotablo wurden und the family bad plenty of vegetables to eat Lather's experiment with the arter further showed that he could pot dow variollos Somo of tbo blossoms Tero of entirely Dow coloan, others had potala which wto twisted and curled. The follogo of homo vue stripod. Thero vero all sorts of vartatlona. However DoDo of them wu better than the wild uter which had been produced and perpotuated by Naturo berrelf. Laatber turned the results of these osportbenta, ting some of the rede for further tests. Odo day Lather's father med letter from one of his two more who had gone to Californie. In tho lattor Lathor's brother would that the climato in California s such that planta ytor to your attend "That b whero I nnt to go Lotho endodond It takes so long bero to got Dow plant from red. A Kod that he prodaood ono rear annot be grown anul tho bent, word in Culfonis, I bould plant the wood which I grow this sping u wan u It ta dpo und I cold ko my dev plant in just a short time. But California l . loog ny from bers, bjected his father It would cost lot of money to get there It woald tako sve day on the train. "Then LODOUDood Lutber firmly I shall Ato my mong until I get ough to go Hs father and mother in talk over Lotber Do umbttion that optag and he mother arkod ·LUTRIT DURDUNT thiol that Lether will really 470 cdough money to ro to Californiel Don t TOTTY commented his father It take him to long that many things may happen in the moun Ho will porta pe have other Idea which will tubo the place of thou be had today I don t bellare that tbcros any bance of his going to Califorath Bat Luther user that what bo vedted mot von to go bere be wald grow boo planta in maion. A plant that starts from woed in the spring and dem efter prodava teed it called on loonal. Iulito from pood to realpod a alled. fenenttion. In Cehfornia Lanther coull set to aod perbap threo geperations each treito months where in Massachusette Lo could got only one Each supertoo of planta ben you are trying to work magte with them * Deory step in improvement. Only reply does improvement como tn . Arst generation Lathor realized this and that la ny bo rantod to hrowbero ho could grow about wrencrations a year Meanwhile bewu Uring whetLareptingente Irted naturally to moobanical dovlon In Now Eng wlad. At that timo or a boy whomo mind turned to osperiments with plants we verteta to try taking thing with tool tranlly rbusterer Lather dll bad practional rape and now that bo motod to vo moonroy, bo gato mord attention to the making of things wich could be sold Ho had experimentod vitheton vhletla Udog en old tekottle the whbatlo fustooed to tho pout, ho domopintol to tho utonlabrasnt of his young friends tbatta. hu pot lut point ough to blow 1 Thleute Latter then developed tho la Soribet mod Teod Dy bad bollt A wall #enn ongine wbich had bough pore to MOTO rot boat through the water Ho sold this ·AUSD. VI VILD Ham doa and garotho money into his fathor', akro to nyo for hla trip to California Beame of his son moohanjaal ability his fatber tbonht that lather thould become poctanto. It happerned that bla molo, Lather Ron, nu prperinteodent of the woodworking dopartment of the Amen Menofsoturing Compeny u Worcester Manchurotte Lothar futber uomioged for the boy to work for hla usole. Luther wu Interested in this work, not only leasure ho wanted to auto Doney but who because ho Uked moohanloul thing Probably mechanla aume second to working with planta, among the things bolked to do HL Job at Worcester wu the turning of plow roonde one lathe. He mu pald Afty cente a day Bat whilo bo wuuww from house bo bed to pay for hls board, and ble board bout fifty cenbe day Ho worked sa dayı week but u be had to pay for his foot on Sunday tho U OD ROy other day bo omod euch wol Bfty conta la than ho spent This did not appoal to be praotloul pature, u hla unele It bo might work by tho ploco-if bo pro duond moro plow round, he would be paid moro When Hemmoorood Lather made twice as many rounda tn a day u be had made befat end umed twica w much money Thea bo bed something haft to say from fatoro Eren thu dndoo to aning did not entirely stafy him. Hvu kwaya watahing for a method by blab bo could to proto bla York. Ono day bo went to bla unal with tho DOUDOoment that bo had bollt dorlop with which bo pool turn out noeny tlmer Doro plow rotada than nu common on the ordinary Latbo tban apod. This attachment which he had to rented blod blm to con u much u liteon dollen. day! Perbap thly uncoal suocess boall hero medo bim athbed the outer ui moebulo and Inventor the great amount of dust which he brethod to ·28 LUTH BURBATI working shop wus dot ment to his health. H. bad nove been a strong pbyalally - other although ho W rory Lotivo Now tho dud had puch bod oiloot on him that bo had to leave his unclo s omploy Ho returned homo end dovotod hiba timo to the rating of fruits and vegetables for the local market. Even in this wok, he wod bbe inventive gonlu. Ono of the fint thing he did wu to bould . dam sorodstroem on hla fathon . land to mak larger ornborry bog Oranberrien mou grow wboro thoro w plenty of water And, to order to have a larger crop Lother medo a larger arou on which the crunberries would grow Tho rullroad engloo of that day burned rood and Latbar. father old wood from ble timberland to the rail road One day whilo Luther wus working hour the railroad truck bo oorored .flro whloh had been startod by sparto whlob flow out of a belahme rallrond locomotlvo Already his fathertimber wou throg teood. It wu throo miles to town wbore Luther know hout wp, and the only way to got thoro as to man It a bot day but Latbor startod running Ho moured do Docemury holp bac ho vu partially Overoordo by hle colo xert og in to bot run and will for many day Thla a porionoo weakonod he health oven moro and proved to be another roupon why bo dover went back to the rood working shop or to mechanla u aureor While the dootor wu orlog for him during his linen, Lather - ww his general custom ukod meny question. Informaation about tho human body intorated him mo Localy that ho concloded he would liko to boa dootor Tbo boaal phyuden took en latorout in him and holpod him stody modidne fore your Lother might hero goro on with this stody boosso ho Nikad It tremendourly but at about tho end of that your ble father died. Lator the family moved to . noerby tom auled Groton, and there Lather began his futuro work in eurder, gah devoting all of his time and operas to the tubifen ·ADDETTI WITH NEEDS Now thero vu real nepomblity Lother'ı Aring und bolped too farly in the omorgonoy ud ho pot ind ny to make moro modoy Bobo wus continually look tog for improvemente la vagotable growing Ho obeerved, for example that hlo curtooten vero cager to have west coro u sarly in the rame # posible. It ocoarred to him that If bo wold produco irrot com carlier than any other gurdader bo coald uk bigher pron. Bas since it voald tako too long to prodoco & Do rutory that would mature cerller be lorooted mothod which could be pul to tro at once. About veok boforo It wu powable to plant oorn in blo guedes ho put the rooch in a pan of shallow water whero they arallod and startod to germinato Theo whon bo plaood them to the ground they had start and would grow to matarlty many dayi boforo toorn grown in other garden. In this way bo we abl to havo weet Como for malo boforo inyono olac. Il pained many now dromon and alu rooolved higber price for his only OOTD. Bat ho did not stop thinking boat the way of Naturo, whloh must be undontond la orilor to schloro thon protroul results In then youn won Latbor Bu bank mua growlog to menbood, on the world greator solentleta, Charles Darwin, wat oonduett I usporimonto and writing about thon in England. About the time Lather was twenty-ono yen old ho ra gira 07:0 of Darwia boob ontded Armo ad Plon' Uwe Domenication. This book weblod him to be oven moro oertain that he could ontriboto more to this world by Oreating dow rouloti of plant than by any other blod of pork Horted opery word in Den rolamo ourofolly H. mad un of the prindple is descrlbod, and ho bomo Mord and moro pure that what bo wupted modt nu to bo froo to pond al ha timo prodaoing now planta The flot that no 01 Lo hud over dono il ·90 LOTHO A 2000 god when bourbono told him that what bo natod to do could not be dons, Although bo TUI DOY only tropty-one year old ho had beamed many time that Naturo bue for limitations In what sho aan produce. Ho had aloo demonstrator that man aan wir Naturo end holp bor to moald Dev lives of Any type daired. Ho still had the ambition to go in Call fornle. His mooni u an areator ho bollored morely demontntd that ho could creato nor planta After all i now plant an torention fact a mach 4 steam engloo of original donga to o lorontson Thi principło be dow boep reoog nbod and . Dow plant may bo paconted just as now machine may be to protootal, ·5. POTATOES PROMISE A FUTURE The possibility of finding • fataro ma potato patch voold not doet to many young mon and Lather Burbank bad do ruch hopo in hle mind one day when ho nu going through hla potatoer ho vu looking for potato bap To bím, och plant vu lio a personal fitend, and he did not want un nomy bag to at i anglo ono Baddenly bo stoppod in emazement H. era httlo Tound groco ball. It us not a potato bug, but something moldom woon on potatsen Luther Barbank faturo w Letually loaldo that little green ball Lother know what it wur kmov the poulbilities of mingit - a bourdo of money for hba povo to a climato whero bo could grov threo gonorations of planta cach your Por tbo Ritlo green ball at which be mus looking wa pod pod. In it, be mus lator to ind twenty throw ncede, ouch one of which woald grow into • potato plant on which . Dow variety of potatoes would bo prodaced It l. not often that potato plant prodacon woods For many operation wo baro grown potatoa by outting tho tuben into place and planting thom now tho plant weldom produce roed This little rood ball we not yet ripo In fact it was coly beginning to grow Lothor Enow that he would baro to bo patient Ir many d y beforo Itald rush Ita fall abro. Ho know that bo would bero to wait until the rooda bad poned beforp ho dared to pick tho pod from tho plant Thilled with the prospoot bo wanted to stay in the murden und protoot that little greco ball ull day and all night mother din troo with that Ida, bomotor and no bo bad to trut the tiny sphoto to the clou.co hopo that nothing would happen to it to pro plating the moet ·LITHET BUILAIT Too plan which dorolapol la bka matod daring tho first into aver bo ar thorend ball wu that he would give Dow nartotlet of potatoo sod roll thom to a woodenen Ho wonld go to Californis with tho money thus sound Of cours to bed to exanno that any of these werla would grow ito na netto which mult be of loy ralio whatorot flo bad experienced many dlappointments with other sodo menor yet had bo produced new variety that wu worth more than the old kinde. Bot there arporlonoce bed taught him that ho mott be patient and bo neror lost bopo Ho know that it way impossible to forotell wheR . DOW and bottor nertoty would asper A TRAGEDY IN THE POTATO PATCH Erety moming after that, Lathor rose audly and wront to the potato patch Thero bo stoord looking at the latlo prron ball contaising the woods on whiob ho felt hos fotaro dependod. Flo olamined it at ditorent time during the day Rrory oroning boforo ho rent to bod bo mado muro that the mood bell nu a safe. And after bo went to ad at night to drowned f'tko plave bo would carry out with tho modoy be expooted to got from tho now mariotion of potatoor One day when the wooda mer Drurly ripo ho vont to tho gurdon to dream of more happy droene about hla foturo in the warm ollmato of Calliomia When ho camo near to tbo plant vhoro the rood ball bod beon growing hu boart almost stopped The nipo woed bell mu gomol You could have takon ItYho roept her mother kpus It us thero o korito nalaol Ho had not spoken to anyone ebao about it Without serde, bo copld pof product Detotie of potatoeh Potato soods from whom that he had no khoe when he might find another end ball. That hasoo had be of gottlog the needed monoy bow To In potato be cool all from this mop would ·POTATOL: P80100 A TUTUR) 33 pot bring very much. The rol progpost for his fatoro Ley In that cod ball which we DOW JODO. Whet wu bo to do! Luther dropped to be insoce on the poft turth Nortourly ho torbod over overy plooo of dirt. H. oxumdod overy quarter lock of space ander the plant on whloh tho mod ball bad gore, the mood vero not there. Ho looked under the next plant, and tho post one and tho port one. Ho had mado op his mind that bo would Orno orary inch of ground in tbo garden. It was growing dark when his mother called him for прест Ho didat want to give up tho pourah, but bo could not bopo to hunt an anti darlight For rotoral day, ho hanted in rain. Fmelly Opo ovoning, when he mother called him for mupper ho awwerod with u shoat I ve found it! I no found 1t1 Ho shouted at the top of heroico "I to found it, Hother Ha mother of course os astonlahod. When Lathor aboved her the wod bell, who laughed eod ald, 'You vipuldn t got m rated about . ituthing to that" "Littho thlag! repeated Lother Notber this tho biggest thing in my kfe! With thin wood bell, I may be - ablo to get onough money to really get started What do you mean got cartodt utod him mather I want to creato now fralta, regotables, trees, and flowen," wmocond Lather That be worthy ambition be mother arood bat I do not know how you are going to learn the boste It taka. walentin to do work ilko that. "I koot bow to do it por declared Lather with confidenco vhloh Anased his mother I baro beon Teadlag boobs and telldog with mom and I know just 1 What to do to malo nov planta II pleat the ribat oro in the wood bull, DOW kind of potato sul cu oh wood. Bomo of tbo bow potatoo may, ·LUTHO DUBRAT H but mome of there may bo better tban odylbing wo DOW baro If they are, I am going to sell thom and got onough monor to go to California If you get tough money from selling the potatory that come from those reade, hle mother promised you may go Latbor felt this vu tho happlat day of ble kifo. Ho know of course that it might happoa that not a doglo soedd in that ball would produco potato that would bo u good u thon drezdy la crbstenco. Loter oo be planted thodunch of potato modo recurod from all over the world und wu zblo to weloot only ono por plant which produced potatoea wbiob ho thought word botter than thom already being from in the Uolter! States. It L Rot often thero fore that o poteto wood will produco e now vartoty which But now Lather folt that womehow boww gotng to got what ho wanted Bomething told him that poxt year hm rould bere the long-awaited chance to begla hu rol work. Lother guarded tho xed pod 21 through tho intor In the spring ho plantol the twonty thrdo mode which vero inside the pod and onoh ono grow Thom twenty throo potato plot vero ginen botter are then ang plante over hed boforo, and wboo tbo tipo came to do tho taber Lather still bud confidence that be wus going to got what bo woted Ho dog the potatoes which grow on the fint ride There was no question but that they word of a bow Turlety Bat tho tubers wito mortbler Tboy vero mall and twisted The wond bill wu fost about u dvappointing us tho int ono. Bat Lathor did not lomo boro Thoro vero I wooty-ono more bills to bo dug Nomber three proved to be worthlour and modid nombor foot ·POTATO FRONTO TUTU 80 Nomber fivo Inked mooh botter bat Lother was in drabt u to whother It mi u md a potato u tho Early Roro Tarlety from wbloh the woods bad boca tukea. number or velded besutiful potatoes. They word largo and tooth and white There were olghteen in th LOL Luther could nnt bo raro bat ho felt that boro Tue . rurlety that might bo sold. Tho That 050 bo dog lonked er hetter After he had Anlabod dlaring all the bill bo belloved that bo bud obtained two w ulottaa vhloh vero better than any potatoes he bed te woon. The young man bellered that there now ourletter word what ho had w long hoped for but he kome that ho mot test them by growing up befon he could wolltbom to Ho planted both klade lo operato patchos th Delt spring, and barvertod tho crop in the fan Odo guvo blm more than twloo u many boxhols of potatoes to the scro w roro mmmly grow berr tabri father vrlotten word ood. The other one dH not yield quito wo well BO hm derdded that the best-yholding Tarloty wu tho Ono to bo old. He sent some of the taben to two roodocoon sakhe them to malo btm en oder Ono rodmen at back rond that he wu Dot laterected. The other one, Dr. Jamen J E Gregory of Marblohoad, Hamaboretta, ont mord that bo vould try tho nov potato In his own garden and lot Lather bour trom bim later Luther planted this not proty, wala, and tho pret 411, after h. OTA harteat, be recetrod rond from Mr Gregory that there wu powbility of ble being inter sted in buying the dow struha Ho favited Loher to como to mo him, and Lothar ukod flood of the family Yr J T Brown, bo na banke la . Deur by tows, in 90 th him Aftor tbo Tieton hud Introduood thotel ·36 LUTADO JULAIT Gregory bowed thom a basketful of potatoes. They were largo and mooth and whito. There are the best potatoes I baro over been" med Dr Gregory I grew them in my furdon. And I grow them from tuber whloh thl pomagmoen Root to moveat ugo. Mr Gregory atrod Lother if he would roll him tho potato outright girlog him tho okoladva Hght to introdaooth This wu axactly what Luther Tunted to do Ho much preferred to buro at onco tho motey to which ho wu miluod, no that bo could ow]t to go to th. Pedio Cout. Whon tho banker asked Dr Gregory how much bo van propared to offer Mr Gregory weld $100 ongh Luthor had hoped that bo miglit get 5000 Ir Brown tried to pormado der Grogory to pay more, but the woodaman uald that there wus strong Incalthood of other now rotatoen bolng introduced and be couldn t afford to pay MOTO than $160 for Lother crop Finally Lather grood to thua proo, and the money Tu pald. fr Gregory let Luther Erop ton potatoes to tako with him to California, and garo him to rigbt to introduco them there. Tho rodemen teld bo bollored tho por Tariety should be named the Barbant Seedling beauty permon vbo prodaced bow verloty desorted to bero it beur ble dan Tho young man beurt nu bursting with joy Hla thoodu already to California bomuld sourcely word to 1r Browo us they drove bomo together bat the banket offered to good advloe. You Yon there too much Dodoy to Hart on," Mr Bmwa bat if you aralul ad l you vort bard-bore all If yoo bold to your porpou to prodaco Dor plants for the benefit of mankind-you be pito of making a living 11

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Lather followed the droo Througboat his lifo, bo
Deyer allowed the daire to get monoy to abango bus par
poro in any war bha imt deure vu to produo now
planta which would benefit bb f loymen
In tim tho Borbenk potato we wod o ortondrely
espooinly in to northwestern dietos, that not lethan
$17 000 000 worth of the ono napoty wu town cach
year
It is bard to real that menktad en benefit o mooh
from thorwalt of one tiny rood Bat who on uy whothor
If Luthor bad dot huntod almostly for tho lon need bell.
and then planted the mode toontained, the world would
here tho benefit ft not only from the wide wo of the
Burbank productions

·& THE GREAT ADVENTURE BEGINS The Lather roturbed bomo oth $160 ah be me tager to laro at on oo for blo nov komo Hover r bo owood borontoen sors of land took tool woede, and othor equipmeat which must be sold beforo bo muld It took some time to dispose of those rarion Alablo artholes, and tbon nth all ha eyallabla funds gathered together be bad only a little more than mough money to pay hb nairoud fire scrow the continent, When the day of parting u bo bado ha mother good-byo with moul fooling of regret and happines. H. Torty to lour bis mother but bbe clourly formed acobicon to experiment in producing now plene medo bim rolito that bo wu dong ibe right thing is going wburo his work could be carried a more effectively His mother prepared plenty of food for him to auty on the train and in addition to fow extn clothes, him begnuge further conditod of keeds of various klade with which bo wuntod to work in Callformu-end tho ton Horbank potatoon. Without doubt it u the box con taining thom ton Barbank potatoo wblob garo him greatout comfort on the long hope fourney of Wren thonmad malam Pormg over mapa of Californias many times before bo Loft Nowsheette, Lather bad finally concluded that ho would go to the little toto of Santa Rosa Tho nasto uinotivo but more than that Larotigation of the country courlaced him that this wu an doul loontlon for to klod of work bo woted to do. So ho pakl hl laro to Bente Rou. Bellronda vere Dot o woll developed in 1878 u they an today and tho trip from Now Engluod to the Pedro Count roquired aloe data at the bath Hordote tho trata dld not elny Loep op to the robodala Bat whoo- ·THI UT AD DITULIP OTT then Two dolayı, romo of whloh smogatod to an enthe day Luther would open the box of Burbenk poten tots and arumino cook of tho ten spooloom ourofolly Boforu bo arrived at ha sex home ho know every spot, oveyoyo overy Wrinkle on each one of them to tabor. Ho rooled again what he had learned ourllor in 14. No two things in Natur Aro Inouy alto Book ono of thou ten potatoes, although they word all of tho now Burbank yubiety had its own individuality Perhaps tboy word bettor companion for him tban human beings voald bare boon, for thoy oncours god bim to plan for ble fatore Thoy gavo hlm onſdono In wbut ho had already scomplished, and they were an inspireton to loud him on. One day the train ceno to Lo Udaypootod stop far from any town. No both were in sight fi eoy dircotlon. When Lather took adrantage of the opportanity to get off and nl. mort dletance bo dotored thet tho Touson for this stop vu . hot allo The tralnom told hlar that they vould here to relt mul tho vrlo ocolad, whiloh would be more to tako two hours, and powlbly longer Lather Wulod short distanoo out on the pratio and v many tnteresting plants with which ho had not fo morly beoo familler Thus garo blm an opportunity to droem of improvements that might be made in the plente. Any former would her called thom voode, but Lother witho poolbility of beauty wod wofalnew to each ono. Hm woon to laro tho corotod opportunity to work for much Improvement When bo roturned to the train, bo muhformed that thoro woold bo. further delay of two or thru buan. es a matter of fact, the train did not got started on its way again pul th end of the day Lathar went back to his out od red from one of the boobs ho het brought with him. Ho had read ·10 LUTHT DODI otro book beforo-many time la fact. But he pored orer u selo, boneAsing from what bo read more than tbe fint time because of the expertencon ho had closed sinco the first reading He had marked certaha pamjet on pro loro roading Thou papeo mo bant oren moroto ho Ho had meOn muro of this great country of ours and melbed the nuod filmprored pants which may be used by ferret to produce food and sharhlog sad other countLab for buman being. With a debby panell, be drova diagnom oo the blank page at the cod of time book. On he diagram, bo divided plot of ground to soveral montlont Thi wu ble imag inory repartmental garden. He decided to plant to one the tan potatoes bewus goarding, io carefully Next ho todo room in his parea for all of the mede bo bad broogbt from Hammamutta and chored adalahorral spa o for roda wblob bo bad gashered on tko pralelo vhlo tho train wu waiting for tho ulo to wool At bo me tracing this depam bo realized that ho vould need money to opport bimell efter arriving la Cullfornia Bo mort allow specs in this imaginary garden for prodaong rugetablom which could bo sold loomodatoly but the broaght him to the stern reality that ladd bano1 bought vitbout money Ro Rould have to work at whatever compation he could tund wauh bo could use ed-ongh to buy the land to Derdod. Whoo the train res stopped on the pruirlo opt of the pusongen om and it down in the met sorow tho akek from the young men and talkoi to bla. Lather latooed ottenutraly learning ibat the men bed lived in Santa Ron ud mu able to ripply to formation about the litek towa Then he follor tarolet yked what was to the bot Lathet opened it and duplayed the beautiful volto But lond potato ·Jor duz Tett per ILOIL varter TTCI telur Etten- Turkett Smar- که صدام به مع دع Er 1 Er OKI Drei FETTO Vote for Iris byte-1- - TIS AHTI remer I ter o nr ou To Brno Lelpott er um TŁAD I L rámu 1 leurco en #wi belped et en terat cut "Xstort tarth. ER" * Largo plant that cott RS LEI. my mm 1 Otben that efet let ky men to that otbon which contro k.1, mire and will have the STADT* I bart renture dette the pey you wb I s take you out £410 uc L #Dont .

·LOTTE. RODIN provetr you that there an ao two floren in that little batch of uten thoro whloh Aro exeetly allko You un pretty mun of yoonell uren't you !" commented the orange Ya or greed Luther I bro uminod many poops of planta ad found that there is alma dilter on.co botween the repente individual Bol na not afrald to as that I CD abow you didortacon in the blorsoms la Any rich of flavon no matter whether I bero eror men tbo patob before or bot What aber bare you burtied ? cncouraged the stron JOT "Tell mo moro 1 have learned ununued Lother that wboa acoda For one potato pleat each wed will produce * ROW vartoty Thats how I ww able to prodaco tha Burbank Fcodling which I bare shown you Hvaboat the woode of apple treen! weet the gur Every reed from a fruit treo ele producon now Sty Build the yupog plaat maglolan. Fralt trren of homme kind us reproduood only by grading Tho bres and obber teou tito caro of the crossing of pollon ou fruit tree. The crudng hu bera dopo for so many gitarr atlonu that fruit tre kods am droady propered by Nature for the production of new netoter. *WOD," wall the stronger "you reem to be a certain that I am not going to ak you . question which will certamly confuo you I Nator solarsh in producing Hnda of plants, brow ba it that the prelim bo not Dterally covered with mison of new rurtettent "Tan Lee that question als ald Luther con A dendy. Thonor naraty beglat u snelo individual 1 The old mrlathe grow great nambah Bloglo lodirldwa Mundot alvay thriro in place whero they are in coespetation with older tablahed Woda It lonely that Dev Trsy putna brudny because the establwhed Ibode word It och The woods to be Naturowy of poet 1 ·THE OUT ADTEJTOLE DEOR the inferior yurtotles from taking the earth It tho botter verlety only that moeted." "Oh," ruld the man, "you are propoarding tho thoory of the martin of the Attat" Toll Ald Lother I dont know wbotber that I tho theory I am propounding of not. I hem nover called It that. Bat I havo obeerved in Not ro that only thou plents which an strongest rrrl o add roprodathomretrom. And it soms to me that hordbes i tho chler ctmenthal for roou. So Im going to mak It my form principlo Ill introduce only thom now plant. Whilah domodatnto bardinom Thoy must be able to live to competition with others, and corriro under dification. I im pot rolng to introduod now plants which must be Pumporod. Well " potoplimented the stranger I must uy that you bare bigh ambitions, and I wish you the greatest of FUOCO. Evidently you buvo pat much more tho gbt on the roboot then I hire on thoagh I am I thourity budnem tn Owl forntoPerbape I will bo your compotitor "We must ben competition said Luther wald Luther For furt u planta domowtrato thior bardheu yanat competition o man mun do the same thing I m Dot berdy opough in my work, you may prormt my thriving by rolling your product to all of tho customers to whom I bould liko to voll. Oh don t bo podmiotta, mid tho man. "Im not golng to interfere with your plan." "I'm not powalmistlo and Latbor "I m dmply talling you that I understand the importance of hardino. No matter how beautifal, hor jaloy bow areet truit may bo, It shell Doter bear my DADO unlew Ito gro rudistently berdy to withstand the roletado woroblog rummor in eod ibo trials of roold ·LUTHD BURAN Well spokon, young man. Wall spokool Approved the strenger who walked away It Dot surprising that the convertation added greatly to Lathor Barbanks oonf.donoe. Ho had tatod Do important prino plos waloh bo hed do ver before put into vorde. This stranger ancouraged him to pat his tbooghta, hle droes into corde end to make a plod go to himself Now that he had sold these thing tboy momod moto mportant than ovor to him. Hurdlar wu to bo hilo bolo prindple of plant creation And bardhace romanod z budlo prindplo u long u ho lived.

·7 LUTHIER DOE: THE LIPOSSIBLE Upoo Lather Barbank, wyal in Bonte Ron Call fore, thero vu DO ODO of the train to meet him. No ono tn Santa Roue know that bo nu coming. Harlag very litlo mody Lather fret ked to get rock to rapport him olt. About the only omployment which hoemed to be inllablo vu the detring of team of oxen or males which puled the beaty płon ored to preparo tho moll for wbrit But Lother n not a rugged young man, whooo the time wbon be wu oporoomo by tho haut when he no throo milon to help are hele fatbor. timber from fire bo bed not been able to dend hoor wort to tho son. Ho wallod aha. through the fow stroots too Hello village. At that time Bants Rome did not havo oven odewalk Thero Foro do vinogurds, oreberda, or otamental tree. Tho tova W porrounded by wbout flolda. Latbar obworved an oppurtanity for free night. lodgtog in a mall building pour tho odgo of town. It poor od to bown untud oblcken bonne. After derk, he went to the bolding, placed somo hay from a heyatack nearby on the floor and in this obleken ooop ho oblogol hla firat night. rout in what he bollored to be a country of opportunity It wu qulot In that abendosud ohlaken hoort on tho odgo of town, and bo wu happy Ho had the stwfuotion of botng lo dimonto where he unbittore might be roulbol Ho wu fost u suro that ho mu going to foorod u any OD could be Tho part moraing, bo omo to place where building wu boing operated and applied Ir. Job Tho contractor told him that if bo would faralah bis oro slogt tag betabot ko might come to work. Lather went to bardware store and spent hialur dor for thingling hotobet Yben be returned to ·10 LOTI DEBATI buking the contntor told him that mother applicant head como ahead of him and that the roald bono art ployment. Ad explanation of what Lather hed droo In spending bu laut dover for the hatbot did not chango the docto of the natnotot Fortunately thoogt. Lothar wu abło to get bla dollar rotarbed hy the kind-borr tod hard am merebut when bo esplaised the station. There were very for den during the remaining moontha of the year 1878 on whlab Lother Burbank ru vars that he would have enough money to pay for his post day's food Such a exporlenou rould dourago mount young men bat Luther kept his spirits bleh. Brery problem bead to himooltmerely a top tomard 10000 Rach day he was able to got the normaury foort, and finally in tho fall of 1878, bo moured moro parmancat omployment from Hr I L. Poppor of Potaluma, town about thertoda miles from Santa Rosa Mr Popper owned one of the fow narzerles In Cull- Loro and Lather wu happy beos.com bo w roing do tho kad of work be libed Hovorked to take ourney through the water and into the following spring Mr Pepper had a building knowo 14 "both to to wbloh plante wors Hartod, and Lather the allowed to ano room iboto tha bolboch u. place in which to sleep. But after . for months, the godorablo Lodgtag and tho hard mark bo had to carry on during the day to acher to metafy hla opoye orod Lother to beoome Ul. Ko rotorport to Santa Root And ront to the bomo of a frond who to him the ouro and the treh z bo nosdod dartag Woen Through many tlab of the port Luther did not spre for financial aid to his brother vbo in lo sorbor tow... In the first place to know that they word baying their own problems and in the roocod plcom, bo vw pro that they do not entirely appron or hk plan. He could beer thom myling to tab other who ·LUTAE. DOD TO DEPOSILJ over heard of ach an older u nunting your Ilfo working with wode and plenta which Netort bortalf ooght to know how to bendlot' Brea practical nurserymen did not applaud tho Hou that Lother hed for Do ono bed OTGT mado a Hving u plant Improvar Tbo croation of wofal dow plante ua life work us an Impoweblo Teatro, o far u protlou men mero concorded and they told tho yoang mo what thoy tbought with plenty of omphada They hopod that the plain frota voold decourago htmo, nad turn his thoughta to other omployment Bt Lother mu dot to be discounged. Put experience had taught him that, I you in what you want mort you can get it if you perlit, and plan and work, and koop up your coung. Ho had long beforo con otudod that . men uying that something by im poudblo does not neomarlly malo it in Impossibility "Buo. satement, Lother bad often uul to him cmply moon that the man making it does not know how to do what he wyub Impowdblo." Lother bed not you boon ablo to plant the ar perimet tal garden wblob ho had drawn on tbo tylauf of the book the day he train wu stopped on the praista. But h had taken the ton Burtaok soodling to tho homo of one of his brother, and ble brother had ulloved him to plant them a part of ble land. Then ten taben produced drop of potatoes to the fall wbloh Luther rotatood to be plantod for tho Dart yours After bo berrested the rooood orop ho began to roll the tubeo to potato groren und this broagát htm a mall income Too pooplo of Californlı had been soonstomod to. red pouto They were pot cudly permuuded that . white ono pould bo u good, creo thoagh it was large aod gledad much more. A les at time, borutar the popalarity of this dot Togetablo grow in the ·18 LITH BURHANE Imall stato, until ln for you it bouto the chief nuraty of potato grom there, Luther wus later able to get a mell ploot of land nor Santa Rowe, and gradually he dorolopod Durvery from whloh ho sold both potatoes and tool Ho did the work in this panory in hlarpero Horor aflet peading to day ** carpenter work. The day: Work wu herdor bookin it ww Dot Doorly ko Latorouting to him who work with living thing In those daye Califorple nu not rocognised - fruit country w it is now For that muon, Lathor: nursery businen grow Yory slowly HIS first of fralt trees wu to the year 1877 Tho auroful accounts ho kopt of all ho did, abow that the income from tho Bolo of nursery stock that year wu $16 10 In 1878 hl rotarna woro $84 In 1879 his troom, from trood W $303 23 Th. Dort your bo ourdod $702 Tho following year bo rold $1 118 00 worth of fruit tree Add flowers. Ho vu making program Buch ablllty did this young man dleplay in the roloo and growth of fruit troos that he incomo continued #woll until, in 1887 be sold over detaan thopand medallen worth of nur pery stook. One roumon for this plosing soon ru that Lathor Barbuok hod domorustrated that he could du tho impor oblo The hint porformando of what every loool nurrory man collod Lo Impoolbility Ourred in the year 1881 A Ir Dutton, # poulthy merebant and banker of Potaluma Callforine, had doroloped . Addon interdut In pruno growlog and wished to eatablablargo puno orchard quickly Mr Dutton bo had not the young Santa Roa purtryman omo to roo him in Murah of 1881 Ho maled it Lather oorld fumbh twopty thousand promo troa ready to rot oat tbo ooming fall Other nor Xry ten bud uaid that growing preno treo In ano OOTI would be no imposability In fact oporYODO know that It could not bo domomoreryone bat Lather Burbank.

·LUTELA. DOES TH DORIAL. Datton urood to farnlah what money Dey to ty on the project darłag the rammer and lather vrood to produce the treet Ho had axperimentod u boy in the grafting und boddlog of fruit trees. Ho know that a tlny bud cut from prumo troe could bo mitad onto the root stook of any other treo whloh belonged to the humo genu. Ho or from or perlanco, aloo that the roode of it mond tree pproat quickly and grow rapidly Tho ulmad closely related to the prude 80 Lather So Lather concluded that ho could prodaoo twenty thousnd prado treou to ODO rummar If bo were to transfor bade from prune trou to the trunla of fast-growing almood wodling. HL exporonco in making sroot oom grow moro npli \y malo knowledge on whilah be drow in the cure Ho determined to care for the almond seods in rooh way that the roote vould develop npidly and quickly provido e trunk on which to graft tho bads from th puno trees Lathor rontod fire maro In addition to tho two com ho already had Ho scurod orough mon to help him plant tho almoad soods and, u soon the modling wtro ready to transplant them into run to the aunty Io sproud to almond seeds a roll-drainod bod of rock rend mod curored thom with ourno burlap cloth Thls, la turo vu corared with and about an froh doer To thony ho could it up the burlap and ozamino tho almond mooda without deturbing thon. The woods moutod quickly and u woon us any Wero ready they wuro transplantod. By the last of Jus, momo of thom now almood troon van roedy to roodro tho pruna troo bad. By the fint of Dooomber the treaty thonund prudo troet wore delivered to his customer According to what the oklor nortymen Lotbar Barbank hed Looom pliabod the impond ·60 LUTEE. BURAXX Natarily Ir Dutton did not basltato to tell ull hla freads about the young nurseryman vbo bad produced pode trren in ono kuson. Norer boforo had prude orchard boon created lo ono your It huy to underutand therefore that Luther good ropatation spread, and ble Aurtery busidom recooded. It appoarod that his ambition to dovoto hle onttre time to the production of pow and better plants my soon to bo roalisad With the money ho roosired for the prano troon Lather parohamed four area of land in to very hourt of wbuat bo now tbo modern Bente Rou. It munoglootod plece of property which tbe owner had tried to rell for a number of yean Everyono conalderod to land to bo very poor No crop had grown on it for a long titoe But Lather bed examined it ourofolly and concluded that I ww just what he Dooded for his ospori Dental work Tho land bad boon the bottom of a pond ut Ono time and to it vu roh soll. Ho lud eighteen hun dred loads of manuro spread on the four earth. In this my Lathor mado a toh soll-tbo kind bo know he would Dood for the work bo wu nov to follow la carpet Ho first planted fruit troou on thls land, and by tbo end of the second year bo bad sold onough of the trees to pay tho cost of the four ecree us well u to pay tho wormen. Ho por had the land roady add thero wero no dobu to to pald Infow years, thh lour-core plot was to rapport moro now plants, mod a greater Turiety of strange plante, than ovor grow on four Rere sahero in the rorld H. had also camod enough by tha tmo to buy farm at Sebastopol woven mailan away on which the poll and conditions voto moro favorable for the proving of frult tree and oartalo other ploote Tbo welling of dev Tarieties of pluote is dot ilko the rolling of aurory stook. Hoverer the stufootlon to en ambitious young men lice Lutber Barbank ba far ·LUTLU DODS no MOLI 61 greator Ho know that for at lout poten! yan ho might not havo u bdg an income from the rolling of now vert otros u bo bed from the polllog of nursery plante. Bo ho oontooed with hea numery port u part of hb project for throo or four your Too your 1885 marked the beginning of hle specializing uaplaat Inventor Ho had at lunt, at the son of thirty-ul rouched tho potot at which bo could dovoto his entire timo to dolog what he had not out to do ·. PLANT MAGIC WORKS WONDERS Thero nu . time, whes Lather Burbank, u anal boy ment to a theater with Lu father and thero w maglolan obongo black cloth into . whito ono. The puericles rolled o largo ploon of popor into a tabe poskod the black cloth into ono od with his add ond tho cloth Hoon came out of the other and perfootly white. Tho magiaan thon enrolled the paper and the epdience wi mtudod that the black cloth bad timod wolto After Lother becamo e racordul plant improver in California, bo started to work on the blankberry with tho idea of making it wblto Boi thi trlok would not bo por formod la u stort a tlmo u to trick of tho maglaon bo had teen In Verrohtuotts As a matter of fact the two trobs are antirely dHesent Tbo maglolan had not actually changed tko black cloth into a whito ono Ho bed place of paper in whleh tbero mus paper pocket. Tho black oath u prbod into this pootot aror the paper had been rolled and a whito ototh wu pollod out of another rockot at the other end of tho oylador Too aadunco did not x00 tbono pochote. Bo wfler I was the roaddan had doce me to orcato oo Madon. Tho people thought they saw a black cloth turn into whalto ono notually wherou no chango whatever Mr Burbank job w to pako u blokberry really white aod bo ocul pot do it by trickory Thuo berry must bo wbite, not only in his perdoa bat beroter bo planta Trov The magicien hangod black to white to entertata hla audienet Tho plent Improver proposed to obengo black to white to malo kalborlas mon delicioon, moro paltblo od boro Inte ing to abort, ble job ww romo thing more than otanto the color Per poro, in fact, for ho most at home time change the dayor tho ·MAJT KAGIC FONTS YONDAS da tho prodactiTeden od bo also unted to mak, un earlier bearing blackberry boh. Hearing of . wild blackberry glowing to Now Jerney vhloh u aald to be white Ur Burbank bed some of the mall babes rool to him Bat the berde roro mall and Dot good to eat. Forthermore, they wero not white. They mero a yellowish brown Homover tboy Fore Dot beak and ur Burbank thooght ho might to thom plants in coating what bo winted. & be aromed them with the best of the black black borrlos wbloh bo bad. Hb favorito for this purpose wu. the Lawton Ho likod Its devor und It w popular berry Everyone who grow it liked it bat Lantho Barbank felt It could be improved. Tho berries wero Dot o largo es thoy might be, and they were fot Weck. With the woods from this flat arduing, work wus coly begon. Not one of the woodling boo whito berries all roro black. But bo transferred the pollon from tbero podling to the flower of the wild blackberry und Crowd tho pollon from the wild ano with tho woedling In tho next generation, bo found some buubes whow and word . Ilghtec oolor When to ono of the bosb ka Ilgbt ondor thon la como ikollhood that the fruit may be light Elmo. So bo vu couraged. When you aro working with Nature, you may spoot many ourloos things to bappan. One of tho roodling from tho first crow bed an upar posted herectoriello It boro black berries, but it ontinged to bour both domo and fruit tho you around Abo It continood to grow to belght. By the time it vu throo your old, the top oould not bo rouchod without a stopledder Hovoter the ber ries wro small and shoved Do ilgos of whaltenors It w only 1 Dority but an totorosting ooo, for It showed what - Brango things muy com. roralt of croadng When the lightær-colored bube of the sound court too boro frult, this frult nu leo lighter color It wu not white, but it might be descrlbed v u "yubovlab hito.

·LUTHLAR UNT These burber wore rolostod for further tests. The pollon from their flower vu ordered with other readings, od the words the producod vero plantod some of the now vartoto wloh resulted from this lust aroa boro berria of clour orystal whito x colorlent that the tiny moda Inodo could be noen through the trenulaoont polp However there were only four or five boabea bearing thor whlto berries, oot of total of roton humdrod. Ono of tho whito frultlog bothes nus selected us best and when it was multipllod a white black borry wu avilablo for the market. Tho now berry vhlohu named laberg bad not only. cloor crystal white color but boro largo berries with delidoun flavor Tboro woro. fow tbotns on the bubou bochon in this catho offort had been to prodacom whito borry rather than a thoroloo bush. The bush wu prolific. It bore great quantities of thoro doHghtful berriom. There vu do tingo of yollow in any of thom Every little ball in each borry wu puro wbito, The work of produclog the white blackberry, oooupled Overa) youn. And today while tho wbito blackberry has not taken the place of the black one thoro kro MADY people wbo enjoy tho loeberg blackborry for thoy cao grow it to thelr gurden.

·. BERRIES WITHOUT THORNS ulo other people Luther Barbant nu annoyed by the Long hard thoms on blackberry boabe, which contohod bio u thoy cratched upono approvablog borry patoh. Bo bo pot about tomedylog this situation. The normory rhymo about the man to roodrons to thet bo int mantched out his go to the brumblo bosh, thon sorstchod them in yan, might voll here been written about this plant winn Luther Barbank Toomed with other Detonilats that plents doveloped thote for their protoothon, thought, 11 o piro pleate tbelt proper onto thoy abould haro oo nood of thorns ud so be set out confidently to dbsurm tho blackborry Hy work to get thorn blackberry began in 1880. At that time he purchased a blackberry oulled tho Wachtmotta thornleu, blob hed foror thorpe than other varloties It did hero bomo and no wao pot truly. thornbow blackberry However bo wod it u 000 of the parenta in making cromos with thorny black bare. Later oo, ho pot another razloty of berry which know u tho Bd dowberry" and which muselo Deurly tbornlem. The red prodacod by routing the Dearly thornlen berria with others, prodaoed two Or threo Dow upooles which were almost without thorou Then the woro creod od mnong thole offspring be found woveral moro vhich vero vithout tbords Thila wu the rocood gooeration from the original crowing Htben naked Duro than 18 000 wooching from the reeds of the best of the thornle plante, ind out f that laro nomber DODO of the pot vartoties of tho third gentlon had thorou. AU of them were withont may karp pointa coyub on the plan ·LUTJE BURBAN But ho copuldered that thole fruits Fort not good onongh to introdoco. The dowberry wbloh u ono of tho peranta bo wood, wu. plant that truled on the ground rather than wood apright To Inporo an opright shrub end at the mmo timo e botter fruit, Mr Barbank usod tho Lewton black borry pollen to grow with that now thornloon Hinde Ho bopod by this method to souro . Atooth btub which would bear dollokoa berries, and that tan exactly what bo found on hin Sebastopol fut one day in 1911 more than thirty youn aftor hlá first work with blackberries. My own work in rooording his orporimonta bad fost began when ono day bo omo rubing into my office od said Bouty at last I vo found It! Its Woodarfall It delldow! It . tho moct aporb Lavor I har over tautod | After all of the year I finally have it 1 Bat what is it Mr Burbank 1 I urgod. Tall mo what you baro fast found. "A thorolor blackberry " be uld. But Wfr Barbank, I reminded him "you have had hornder blackbarria over shoo I har boen here. Oh but those thornlens bubo out horn Layo fralta that tro mipla bould "Thoy aro tortolom. Thoy Art vorthleu Tho buben have no thome, but the fralta o not good. This motalog I found tho ono I baro been worldag for all the year. Jant to tako tbe thorns off is not googh. Tho frolta mart bo botter than any other blackberry fruit, and at least I hero It I There is ono DOW nrloty Dour the face at tho vot end of my Bebastopol place whloh I shall introduce. The stem on that plant are so moooth that you could rub thom oto tho fuco of a baby with out injuring It In the last There at dgn of . thorn anywhere. And the buah proliflo Tb berilo aro largo ed istening. And the faror bo dolidoos Boaty I har it at lot! 1 ·It run this enthudamma wblah belpod Barbank to keep on working oven after he had aperienood tho Grestent diappolatmente. The work with Hackbarrior vs fatoresting boost # Tu nocoury to arou beck and forth bot woon tharth Lom and thoong bonhes. Every alternato giporation of Heede prodaood only brushes with thorns A chanotcristio ha plant which bas culted for unknown penerationala Holy to bo mooh moro dildoult to change. People who y Hr Burbank now thoralow black berry uprood with blm that it wu the most beautifal and the boxt-turting blackberry they bed oor moon Tho frult wun largo and glowy black it had an acallant MATOL nod tho baches baro in abundance To prodorom blackberrier oth thomo chanctadatla betod tho rumo dmplo method ho had employed when Arst caperimentod with the one yo desde tn los motbore pardon In Marochusette Ho urlod pollca from ono dover to the other and planted any, namber of woode, toth ho finally got the ono idoul plant tovurd which bo had boca porking A KTONELESS PLUI IA PRODUCED The stego meglden Lather Burbank had roan who ho wu) boy could make direr dollar dopper from bokod box. This trick ano to bio miod ono day when bo thought, 'What « splendid tolok it would be if I would remove the stone from . plum without breakto tho Luin." Ho rodod tht in . commorola orobert the stone not needed for th wood er not to be thod fo repro duction Naturo had to provide the stone beoetne vlth out the help of man the protection u pooded to koop mold from the veod end to proten doony until the timo of sprouting Horror It requru • Fest deal of food and mergy on the part of th plent to prod - the ball, to protost auch wood and the remed to the thrifty magialan to be mate Be wanted to tomoro 1 ·LUT. so that the tree might like all the energy for tho production of fruit, rood wpd lares, Ono tblog that moltsd blm to attempt the appar ently Impossible feat Wu Doro frow Franco of a imau wild plum bich in tuell, nu aboolutely worthlow, but which had very littlo aholi mitounding ita rond In fachen the plum wu called Bane Dog10 " which means without kood covering Ho sourod momo planta of this wild plum bat when he had grow the fruite, bo dlcovered that thero wue arm of stone moro than halfway around the rood kvDoL The fralt ftroll nu no larger than a cranberry and wu not fnod to ot Neverthelou, he thought hom. nlao in partial stocolocou boom bo kno, that I ho Toood tho pollon from this spooles with blowoma of good plam trecs ho would likely produco pow plums Whloh would hero almost no tono Crowne word made between the wild Nun and mveral oultintod varbotiek At fint the fruita roro of no praotionl valoo Icopt that many of them werd stonclou Each had a mocd of course wut tho wood was not protooted by a stono. Therefore, Mr Burbank medo farthor orom, and the croning of hybrids on hybrids mos kopt op until hocpo finally cromod his efforts IILE firrt woning wu with tho French prune Tho prano, it tout be undorttood 6.plam Whioh aan be dried for futuro un. In otbor words, all pranon aro plama, but not all plums ero pruna, for many plumu ar ook won they dry pod boootio volen u human food Aye mattor of lact, the skin of the proto mot crack very olightly * In order to allow for the orporation of the molstiro Many of oor good pune are delicious when wrod us ploma and they are ablpped from tho frult scotton to tbolarmer alles where they wo told u plam. But the rotautodo lo the commercial orcburd may bo drled lo tho mon und balm whipped us dried prune Mt Babank often remarkod that the removal of ·RELD TOUT THORNO pines or the fomotul of a stono in compartirely ouy, The almoolt part mu to prodaoo • rondle frult whoh nu of dollalow flavor and largo do and wbloh grov 00_trou daarable in opory ny for commercial gro ving Also, it must have the alpping qualito ro Decorary to enablo It to bo trudsportal from the fruit motion to tho largo altios where it sooded. Btooolenpon therefore we falily dimplo to get in the curly generations of those crones, but good qoulty of frudt vu not found will after about ton generations The first of the stoneler plum tntroduced by Mr Burbank wus memod Tu Viracle The vos sold to the Oregon Nurmery Company in 1003 In 1011 tbe fire stodole prono w tritroduced by him under tho namo of Conquest. This mus & much more desirablo plum than the Virools, for not only could it bo shipped as a plam bat It could bo dried us. prane Ono of the parents we tbo Fronch prono and to the French prune about Aro per cont of th total bulk lo made up of tho xon Tho conquer wus m good u o better then the French prude and not more than one tonth of ono per cont of the total volght wu etono. The mtooo did not cover the wood, but thoro was wnldroalar aholl neer tho odgo of the rood. Thk now pruno the Conqued, had golden rout Bosh. It u borne on tree which we npid growe od prodaood an unuml quondty (frult. Woll named, it marked oDo moro oanquert over dificulties by the plant Improvar Daring bout forty you vot Kr Burbank introduoed olity Dow pluma Whilo . for of the firot warg Hoodling which Naturo hacwolf had prodaood mout of his Introduction ero ortod by orolog the pollon of Ono, kad vlth another planting the woods, and then po looting tho bett Le Tongi produced ny fralta of the videos Terlety Some would be on color rom esothor very amall

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LUTRO JEJUT
vero abaolutely porthlen bat e for giro promise of
being better than any formerly procaced. There of
coarno, vero tested further and thom vhloh dorchopod
Do bed chanotarleta were grown in larger quantities in
order to gro Naturo an opportunity to bring a DJ
weaknee wbloh mighit malo tko plura underable.
Aflor them plum arperiments were onder muy Mr
Burbank urually had about thirty thousand dw nretlen
coming into bouring such yar lloro will be told aboat
thom in later chapton, and partial lot of the Burbank
plums will be found at the back of the book.

·i.. HOW THE MAGIC WAS PERFORMED By belping compllo notes and ret down rooorde of orporimoto it a pondble for bo to gain . oleer Ides of Latber Burbank'ı working methode sod bo himwolf loudly rcoulled the effort behind orury mode Onos bo rtoppeld in the midst of tho dovoripttoo of ono ospar! mom, and old, “No Do you meko that com too oy It nu hard worki When pooplo rood of the lost mbelotablo nocom of great man, tboy uro often indlnal to think that this acco amo in omo mysterloue way It breldom that they reallpo how abowly and Laborlomaly it was built Mr Barbank did not consider himeelf ganto. Ho did not bollovo that bo wu the only one who had the formula for creating dow plants that it ww. Impoalblo for others to ourty on in the amo y Bat bo oould not forget tho youn of disappointments, the day of crawling betwoen plant rom an hende und knoon, tho nights of making rooord. Sometimes, whoo I watahad Mr Burbank at work, 11 roomed to me that his wonen wero moto highly doveloped then my ovo. Ho pomod to be blo to rocognizo shado of color that I could not to be one of tasto vui botter oduontod than mico When I commented on thb, hla wor you prompt "I doubt that my sonson to begin with, on any dit fort from thoto of others. Bat It may be that, boomuto I TIRO my one of tasto my room of mel, and my moneo of sight more than most pooplo for dletingokhing allgbt variatlony, my mours n #ruct more qalakty "To wo handing," bo vont on," the odgo of soro of land on wh I 0100 found & Vot-malling ·LUTIN DURDUT It may be that my oportence in the caso wml help to mwer your quatlon. Then ho told me the story of en oueller erperiment which Mostrates his way of working and orplains how the amazing roculto ero obtained Thom who ar Latber Burbank u tho fortunato redplont of world bonours might and it hard to belohro that ho would spend hoon ruling on his hands and Ideas through an nero of de to anel of ooh blaxom. You bo dia that vory thing-and it brought bluo fundo Ito had long wabod to prodaoo a colla with . vect woont. Ho loved the mucofal form and the color of tho bito flower but tho odor of those proprioruly in ozkatonico u unplannt. "IL, ho thought to him all many time, "I could ro tata this beautiful form and color and add frugteroo agitcable to man I goald con albuto a great deal to the pleasure of human botngu. With that thought in mind, bo not about to produco much Mower of arm, ho was looking for other lo provement u well, but . meet-utaelling alla ruhla chlof ohjective At length bo had an nao ln which thero woro many blossoms larger than those of the parents from which tho now variolie bad boon doveloped. Thoro veto POIDO with tiny blossomag, bat so portoct la forma that locus of tbol Ato all Hizo thos woro moch moro attractive than pomo of the larger ones. Tbero vero wbito blostomi and rellow bloerom There Tot pleurtog blooms and those that were pot plournt to look at. But the odor from all the blowout wy dlagtoeblo lt ru tho common odor of the alle Day After day be had walked through the port with ont doo retog oy, other odor Bat ono orening u bo approached tho feld ho detested pleuant wedi Heh stood out abonn the other lew agrocablo odon.

·03 HOW TI WONO TU OTTEN Ho nikad down the Bret mot und, uho walked bo Turen that his noce had not deceived him. At least bo bad a meettoented walls 1 Bat la tbat sort, thisro rero portainly ten thousand now farlothes, or more. The quer Hon Tu, whfoh wu tho meet tmelllog blowom i Ho nood berol there but could not dotermine where the pleuring Ingredo might be locatod. Yet ho could mell they do matter to what part of tho nero bo pont, and that you wtfyłng bocetiko horo m. plouant scont strong oogh to stand out aboro ten thousand bad molling dowo Ho Low that bo would pot utford to put off Anding that flow OTR for 30 day the following day tho fragranco might not bo to badly roogalood Ho know that thero w no way to and it accept by tho or of his DOW Bo bo got down on his hands and knco, startod at ano Corner of the fold and mdled overy blowom until ho found the me ho wanted. It nu pot tho second or third ar aon tho fifteenth or ofttoth blowo. Ho had to work unit long after dark, end probably smelled threo or four thound blommotor before bo finally found, tho Do which we coding oat Its momego of good l to mankind. Thon, thankfully ho marked tho plant by tear for off white strip from ble bandkerchlol and tylng It Lround tho stal. Ho napod it Fragranca calla und began plans for mal tiplying it so that it might be forthor tested and later Introd ood. The only triumph nu one of the plants wbich bolped to muco the famo of Lather Burbank-. fumo whieb spread Dot only over all of the United Statos bat one all of tho orld. Great Kocatista from overywhere 40+ to Banta Row to woo him and to learn of ha methods Bo wo may my with to truth that Luther Burbank owled on his know to fan, Whon Lathee Burbank u bes ballt muobnloal, bo torted with only ono oltr Bot ·64 LUTNIE DOMU thlo amo young man started to work with flower, he thon had to work with thousapdı. There is no ed to Naturoabulty to produce nuits tlone. Homover Dover wus be able to tell en after bo had yeun of a partonoo fast when Naturo vould pro daco to dow plant bo entod Tho oro redlogi be grow the shortor ne hy to be the time it roald tako to nad the improvement ho we looking for matter of foot, there were many osperiments which dkl Dot rowult in any dearablo new plant Bat, in overy CAKO ho programod futer if he wod thousands of seedling, ather than two or thrco Tbo nino stepa in hlas plan for productog now klods of plants were Pirst ho onrriod tho pollen from one flower to anothers. This proces vu not llmited to two flower only Ilo mado the crowning with so many blowotna that, mully bo had thomands of soeds as a retult. The plants which vero orouod in this may roto aerofully marked as moorda nado of tho croalng Second ho harmontod to mods from those plants and cleaned them arefully to that there would ho nothing but mencapable of producing now varloties in tbo pan when the cleaning had been finthed Thrd ho planted the woods in bellow bort alled Fourth bo watchaltbero flats and u moon on the DCW planta began to whor themselves above the cartaco ho studlod eroh ono Thuso wbo hero novor kon . quantity of now plant creations coming abort the ground pot realize bov marprisingly different tboy are. Some How many tmer farter than other. Somo havo de droblo chanctorkatla vhloh se bo recognbed at Onor TYRA, the minuto bo dlecovered anything undeinbk lír Barbat destroyed thouo plants whloh showed the on dosirablo characteristics Thue many rere destroyed before the plants roro tromplanted from the Lath.

·HOW TO MALO U NORVED 05 Such after all had been eliminated coopt thoro which bovod so fault the remaining plant word trorplantod into test bode There they were given moro room wad tho best of oure. Every day ho crimined och bod. Sarath if anything could be found to altare it wu moagh to doom tho nov plant fler Ii na transplantod. Bordo planta in the tout boda appound to bo Duro ouily bjorod by lowoty or the weather than other they mo immediately destroyed. Bomo vero thero whloh gero off appleannt odors, or dovalopod oolon ibat vero not plending From day to day therefore, the number of planta in an orperiment decreusod. While the improver started with thoumnde. bo rutad no spaco by growing thomo which prombod to be worthlon Bugach th bout of the now plants woro orowd the Woode from the best wo mrod and other thousand of plant realtod-oftan millons woro ined in opo esper mont Muth, in tho L of troo frulta, It wu nocoumery to gº through another proces which could not be cunod with tho Bo warm de woon 44. Dow fruit troo had grow from mood to bo tell caough to allow tho romoval of tny bod or twig, the twig or bad nu opt food grafted on an older tree Urally this now nuriety thon boro frult the followtag your or at laust the cond your If Ur Burbank had waited until tho odginal modling had produood frulta of its own, b. would ofton har waltod att or soton your or moro But by grafing on an older tree, ho obtelned the fruit sooner Moanwhile the little tre chloh you from the wood wu allowed to continue to grow and wu kopt ouro folly martod for only from the trou could additional close bo obtained fo throprodaotlon I tho now kind If It wu to bo tatrodacod. Of courro fow dons might be btalnod from the toy branch whiloh w gruftod on thn test troo but the original treo mis tho ono commonly ured ·68 LUTHO DUBAI This brlof rorlow of tho work to holy to make it appear that it wu qulto dmplo sod cosy became rodiny of methods and realto take only a few mloutan Burt to produce ono Der variety worthy of totroduction requlrod yeun of pathtaking toll Thomands of poodiingt mere destroyed for overy one that proved to bo groful Por exemple, the routine of prodaong 1 now plan started with individual troos brought from Europa Aule and the out court of Amorlov most Burbank płams baro this enoostry As the blousome of those throo truer opeod, Ir Burbank curly in the morning before tho beca itarted to work plcked the flower from ovo od rotterod Ita pollen on tho paths of lowomon opo of the other trooo A record vu medo, . label placed on the tot on which tbo fertilisod blommor grey and when tho fruit poned In the faul It ww muoked arcfully marked nad the woods prowcrved until roudy to plant Thon the woode word planted to a spoolel roll mixtar hich bo had dlecovorod, brought about qulok growth plant tougician sudlo the tloy treas we they are Maboro tbe ground and trust that Brut bera opwud into the sunlight. Oror porlod of your bahud notod the charcteristlon of tho lure and to stops of tho troos u compared to the fruit, and be could often tell what kind of fruit o treo would boar whop bo w the doralop- Ing werdling. As with other planta, tho now plom sodling word om volnod for trenirablo chincterlatio Thore doomed thom to tho bonire, ur Burbank passed the growing plum woodbing almost overy day and whenover hn my ono whloh wu anderablo for any rouon whatovor bo onu pod It to destruction, Nature would barn elloof puted It orentually but ho could belp Maturo and un paco by oliminatlog it moro qulokly As thoro whloh guro nome propimo of futory rude grow larger they rere transplantad so that they would baro moro room in which to grow Agulo the weeding ·TOY THI MADIO YA PEROLD 67 out of the undesirablo 0064 nu e prominent part of the wock After the con vu mafted on the older troo bo watched the con moto than the true Half I ho aw eny Indiaattoo of weaknes in tho bark, lura, or fruit, tho clan wu out of and some other ono muftod where it had boon Thero lo do place to my orobard for loafors, ho oftea mba Tbo bort troe woro planted boat throw foot spert in tho row, and the ron pero about fire foot apert. By planting troon come together ho vu able to got more 00 an LOTO The un mostrato his dadro to meko tho utmost time of everything, wbloh perhaps wu bured upoo hk Now England instinot for praotloul thrift Mr Barbank'. frulting tatt plota oooupled about thiroo LOTOU on tho Sobustopol plece Asho wakod between th rom, ho looked at overy trult, st ovary conf. frult wurtpo bo tastod it. If the frult ww oraoked, ho toda place of Manila tutno around tho som on whloh it grow This ww the donth Wirant, If on tho other hand, the fruit appeared to bo 25 Dearly, perfeo u ho wanted it, and if ti hed desirablo taste bo tlod a little strip of white doth around the stom to bodlonto that the new marloty must be proven tod he ww updoolded, be did not mark tho branoh ut but witod until it fruto another your Day after day during the frulting som ho went through bla plam orcherd boonuse thoro wu pomothing Dow waiting for hbs traspootion overy day Yot bour of walking and ourful obvention ofta multed in the dimootory of not so non plom which ms worthy When a plom na marted with a strip of white cloth, bo looked up iterpoord and lonted the original troo from which the don wu takoo Ho out moro dop from tbl troe and grafted them on th trunks of woodling vild plus to mato adultlodel troos which would bour only th, w wdlety Yild plon roots an Wooly to be moro ·68 LOTAZ BULBATT bardy than thou of other varlotice, w they are best for root stoolu. It ww only in the way that more trees of this one ne narloty conld be obtaloed No other wood ore planted or ove to be planted could produco . plum orectly liko tho ono malootod grafting vu the only way to get additional tree for commercial orohard test The applies to płuma, apple, pean cherrlei, qaincoa, and other arduard troc. If tho kedliog rclected hed enough bauchas on it to mako trenty firo tres of the now naslety then treat woro the grown under oonditions whloh compared to commercial orchard Tbey Horo allowed to como Into bearing, and further testa woro medo to mako erro that the fruit all that mu erpooted If anything thon dorolopod which muda tho fralt ande rublo f the trees word destroyed and tbo fact that thouundo f dollars worth of mob plants voro destroyed coh year abom that there were many many ruch die ppointments, In como um, Ur Burbank had. fruit ready for In troduction firo reun after tho pod wwe not planted But It wu moro likely to be ten yen or longer Bomo of bla best Introductions were produced not from tbe first com alog of polled nor from tho third fourth fifth, with roventh or ren tho tenth-bat from tbo twentieth or fillieth crom. That lodo of the reasons why bo worked with thonno. Il bo lud worked with only ono need at . time bo would never beTo accomplisbou very much By working with thoornds of roede at leut mo na likely to tum out to be of tomo value although red that WA Dot exurod Hany hero wondered bow re obtained our fralta baforo sir Barbank created not tartott. From the beginning of time Naturo bus been plant improver Nátoro hus crowed tbo pollen. She has the beon and other Lorecte to do that work. She has made her co gTOTO tho medo destroyed thom which voro pot uulted to their environment and loved those to grow wbloh roo ·HOY TE Moto Tus MANO 60 Forthy Hovor Nature any required a much to get Himno who who worked alone then when Mr Barbunk bolped her One of his gostost oan tribation to Nataro. creatro Laboratory wy to speed up the proce AT YORK ON A GBAND SOALE Host of the megliere ro mo on tho tego perform triok, which have been treated by othom Thay may vary tho porformance movhat from the originator technique, but the pełnciplea ero tho Am Ho wovor good maglolan All to addition to this, ha vo momo triola whlob be hus origtuated him all. The plant mugleton oponted in wmowbat tho mamo my Luther Barbank nerer delmod to hero origłostod tho ulek of prodgoing w rariotle of plantu. Ho know that Nataro had invented the mothod ho uvod long before men know anything about to be often uuid that the buch of his work ru Natero s mothod of plant Improvomoot dbroovered by Charles Darvin Add dowolbed in uomo of that role that ourly books Ho moured woodling plants whoroter bo oald And them. If Notaro bernil had made the nonpry Oromo to prodaoo Tartation and if & modling from thood TOMO turdod out to bo worthy of introduction Mr Barbunk did not houltato to introdao. It etter all, it mu mmoch hla droo very w If bo bed medo the original com For the most Laportant part of .. plant creato . vork u tho malootion of thomo nustoties wil her worthy of Introdao Hoa to the goal tudo It roqaras the greated book odge, tho Leopet dovelopment of war, und willing ar to destroy a planta arcopt those which are for better then soy thers fn ezbaten oc. Buch perfection did Xr Berbank rouch to tho grafting of modling that he had us muy u thirty tbomend now merlotlar como foto beartag cash reur Ho graftod many Dov vertete od ono abdor tres mest brunob of th older treo nu able to apporto con from a poodibog Tho ho might baro w many mw kinds of fruito growlog on to u thoro tronban ·70 LUTIO BURBANK No ono boforo his time hed doveloped the method of peeling up the complotion of Nature, offorts to creato nor varlotlos But It Barbank wishod to creato u medy, now vartotlos u ponudbło 4s soon as poolblo. Ho arod timo for himself and Nature by using all the phortonta h. could disorer No doubt ono of the most important principles wu that whloh roqulrod letruction of the below planta Ir Burbank had i poco on the Sobustopol form to which ho carried all of the planta wblob were to bo destroyed. Thero bloqumulatod, hogo ple and once your mot fire to those worthlon oroa tlots flo onllod it blu too thogund-dollar bonfire bood and he stimated that it had cout not le than that to produco the fuel wlob weat up in molo in an hour Those who hav tho bo of the bonfiro ofron rood that thh estimated ruloo wu probably mooh too low Tho important thing about the bonflro bowover must bo emphasized agule. That , Lathor Borbenk wus willing to destroy promptly any croaton no matter how loteraut ing whloh bo w pard would be low rulaablo to AD than what man already bed Ilany are proud of what thov prodln:00 that thoy uro Dort willing to destroy any part of the orou thoagh it will notor bo of sorvloe Bot in order to wort with thousands, Mr Barbank had to baro room Ho bed to bare time and I bo bad loſt them soribler plants where they grow they would bero cocupled room and con pomod tlmo An important part of bla philosophy of lifo whiloh medo bim the great man that how dmply tbla Timo annot be added to . perton I Ufo bat It au be made mon valuable by Toldos Tausto." SELLING NBIY CREATIONS When he had twonty fir trees of the nov Yarloty rody for introdotton hla work my ull not fialahel Ho most iod pomoc. who roald boy tble now product ·HOW THI MBIODID 71 to frott TOOTS who would produco thoaande of tons of fruit for me IHr Barbank had not doveloped the part of his Tort uroconfully u ho did bo might never have been Isovn us the world. groetest plant to prover Ho had to be alcumen-ove the proverbial bottor mono-trap hus to bo mold Even though bo produced the best plumu that had over beon grown the world would bonot very Utto unlou be sold them to distributori, for bo mu to longer ta tho nursery buto.com Ono of his mothods of oling to nurkcryment to poble llet of bh dot methods and offer thom for malo. In the autulog cach now frult nu donoribed in wach u wy u to make the nurserymen want to roc it. Hany of thom vidtod Benta Rou and Bobustopol and rent any with purcharan. Tho prloo of the Dow creatbou prod. goet doul. Ono now kind of plum which w damod Splador ww sold to the Start Brothers Nurvary Company of Loull non, cur, for $8 000 For the $3000 Btect Brother rooolved tbo original woodling and th additional troes which M Burbank had him all grafted together with th right to introduce this dow plum to frutt growers, 1r Burbank dd pob rotain ny treo of the now kod but loft the distribution entirely to the purchase Start Brothers purobond many other of hbs fruit troos end Hatod soventeen yrition of Burbenk ploua la tho 1011 atakog It epperont from the lotiags of the ono into drtoon your atter his death, that he plumero null popular amoy commordial fralt growon An Idom of the largo o of many of ur Barbank plome may bo bed from the doncription of one urety tn the Start Brother otalog Thly to Mr Barben! "Elephant Heart, and Start Brothen all it the most marrolow plum over fruited doce the world began The atelog ! Thla plum yorily boomu too good to be true. Bren true you here beld ode of H ·LOTHIR BULAT hero hago blood rod fruita in your head, roveled Its exquito luxdotch you cagerly reuch for other mod flad yourself contatloully wondering Can thim notually be a plum 1 It be crowning quality dumph of Barbant. Watimo andoevor to dovolop Ader frulte for menkind. "The Elephant Hoert le froostono blood floohod plam Tho indioidaad bralta ofton mourro two sodbelt Inohas long by two end . quartor Inoho thlok They arom blg v. United States standard pple Thoy and dark rod and pourthoped in form Thoy ero oually broken open and the wood drops out of its own weight This make it owny to art. "Ito other chanotorlation aro It lo romarkablo ahippor it wondorfully bardy boolam 16 withstands the ooldout weather the fruit hanga long on the tree." Catalog decoriptom en proverblelly glowlog with ight pronoloo but unliko tbe Illuavo potter of tho rage glolan, the promise of the plant maglolan wero puttho tort in bright sunlight, in homo garcons and com merolal nurorion, and thero wu novor any disputo w to the triumph of Barbank. Ufotinio andou vor to dovolop for fruits for manlınd. Unofalen to mankind oontinued to bo tho guldlog Hoa in all Lather Burbank work, and thbu orplain. tomo of bile preferences u wal u hla motboda It would appear from tho fact that bo did not Introduc u many Dow rocos u plum, for anatople that he did not our o much for the romans i matter of fact, ho often admitted that bo roully enjoyod working with the troom Doro than with the smaller planta. Bomohow the proti aul uloo of the food produced by tho troad soomed to appeal to hle Nov England thriftocol, and whlo bo fally roellied the importance of bosaty in doveloping our chariotors sodoroethug tospiration for our daily llrou, bo dorotod mbro timo and moro spoco Lo bile gardan to food plante ·IL FTVE NEW PLANTS BUILD A HOUSE Thonovbo travel through the descrie of mouth rester United Blato me couny, colos plante They grow for spert And they my slowly At least, toy dld and Lather Barbank took an interest In thor valoo u food for livestock. In his oonvormtous with menehmen vbo Fred in the totus country be learned that when I firo hed barned the spion from oloto plant without seriously damaging to plant iteoll animals wero roon to eat tho cuotu with great relish. Containing aboat ninots elght por dent water tho mort otal of all animal Doods on the doort, actus pleut apple both food and drink to hungry oom After leurning that Ipestoot vould eat the onoton when the opbren were burdod off omo of tho run hmen mado. practice in dry Howon of borning off them pha ih toroba Bat this wu ruch . tromopdow fob that it wu pot protloul coopt in cum of tho greater Dersos Lothor Burbank dotermined that worthy fort of bile bould be to prod 0 . auctos witbout opes. More impor tant bo wanted 000 which would prov mors molly- . thorend D Doro nplily-than thom wild rulotion whłob tabebit the southwestom rootions whero ralo como con anly two or three time your When Luther wuery Imall child ha most lored toyı vero planta. Among the many kinds of planta whloh bo troquently curled around, u othe ble outy toy, vu auctw wluloh had dorpida. H. now rooulled the plant, und u bo stadiod further bolouse of some od Quot! which grow without there. But all anot, up to that time, raro alov grow. No porotial crop could bo on with the yerletle then chung The reason tho osol grow for apart on the dauert that auch mus beda do area of roll from ·74 LOTTE DODAN to sboorb moltare when the ratu do como ta tho spring Beouth of the ability of the roots to take up montaro npidly and boaum of the deal of the plants from molaturo oun bo rotamod tho octu hu i da vbloh doon not allow much moltero to ovaporato, and it has mtongo elle nude Thu tho action ofton liro for three years oren though no nin contou Conoottrattag on the motus problem Lothar Burbank took into consideration thoro arid moottoman whoro wator for impatton oorld be obtained from Doar by rivers, and wlso the mand places having moro nlnlall than the deket. It womed to him that fat-growing, plooloo chetu could be red whoro pomo water wu oblaldabło. Also boloarted of other parts of the world whero sieb forego plant woull bo wetsomal Ho discovered that tbo greut deverts of Australia aro capable of growing the auctus and ranchers of Abutnalla und they would like to haro fongs crop of the mort mo that they raight raino - Doro sheep Ho prooeeded to work for much a unheard of plant la Alho Am way be bad worked for other products. Crowing tbo pollon from one plant to apotbet he wcd u paranta both the oploy and spindlers varieties. After studying tho Tarlous kinds of aucti he decided to work th that kind whicb #known - Opxdi Tho stem of the Opeut caetou groni la restool The Open a which bo boli od would be most useful Ard thood wooo weations uro vllo and fat. Peoplo who no po petlop groping from the stone braly rofor to 16 well. As matter of fact, it is not a lot, but . moction of the stom What are not spina mey onco here boen leave with broader erface Harover the actor doo Dot now dlgort food Ia la laurer, utbe habit of moet plants but in its stems Esch wlab of tho Opuntia ho chlorophyl in tho outer roface od the chlorophyl make food from nter und the carbon dioxide of the air in the auto my that chilorophyl In laten doel . similar fob ·I MAI JUILD A HOUD Luther Burbank planted flet efter flat in bla groenboom with hundreds of seade relting from the costco ho had mado As soon us a tiny otw plent showed ita head above the mrlato of tho oil, be began to study and mako selections of those which promhod to belp him got what ho hoped for from the flost, he worked to prodao u fut-growing cotos withoat spina. In tbo and bo prodaoed Dot Do rustoty or tro, or too but thirty-firo Tro enotos proved to be the mou roeponalto of all the planta with which bo worked. My own perloooo with Mfr Barbank began whilo ho me working on hb actos aperiment, uod I a- bim go through every top in the prooom which produced resulta moto utopishing then worything ole he did. If you want to co * pollenido cottu, bo Rd to mo ono attornoon, "oom into the garden where the onot er beginning to bloom. Ha melested the blomme of coton whloh wu small and fall of thorou. It wu just opening Ito podals Tho namens vero opening and wero roady to bod their km Hers ole, Ho pulod Athlok loather plovo n ble right hand and hold tbo bloerom with the glove so that the many tiny littlo plnou would not get fato his floger. Then with long knifo, ho out the blowom from its stem. "It took me a long time to learn to do it tl by way ho explained. At fint Imus impatient to gnl riwult that I didn t bother with leather gloro. Hekel up the blommoma In my bare hand, and many day bato maffered from making that matako. Ho aurried this amputatod blowom to monolur plant whloh vu thororolt of propiou exporimont. Thero bo tombod tho blonom apoio down and rabbeul tte stemcom anth platlla of the other dover whleh wu fut opening Tout the way I do it, howd. Borde coatta rould throw up that hende lo borror if they uv dolog It In truch ·70 LUTHER BUBBAJI Iperiment with son pollination over the plant the day before with paper bag Then, the boxt dey thoy carofully plak the pollen from one flower with troopers and oury it to another flowor that we provloway cororod vitba paper bays Tuut all noname ufuru Ion conoomnod. It is lot bottor to got here before the boon start to work. Then you dont have to bother with paper bagi and twoofer Tho only thing that it doeury bo to got the pollon to tho pistit before any other pollem hus roochod it. Pollen starts to grow u woon uit touobou tho postul It goou down that long etom of the patil and forns with the oralen foaldo the wood ono. Alte it has started to grow no other pollon cas replace it So thero is no roa. on to cover the flower after pollon hu bocu pat on it No matter how many boor como thoy not change this combination I hero Jast mado Mr Burbank tbon wroto in . book the dato tho , and the locations of the two planta which he bed tuod u porecta for woods whiloh would produce dow Farletita. Lator on in the noun the fruits which are commonly salled potokly pour voro roady to hervost. Vhon wo out thora open we found many moda taide. Th rood. vero akrofully drod the pan that was laballod, so that thoro ru no question u to what plant thoy aumo from And what plant had farnlubod the pollen Tho rooords of all of the work word kopt to permanent booke, whloh 1r Burbank guarded arorally Aftor the woods vor roady for planting bo planted tho meds from one fruit toilet. The flats roro kopt In . greenbouw ontll the wood hand germinated and the young plants were thrifty enough to be taken out of 2001 Each morning Jír Burbank and I went to the groc bordo and anothed all the flate. This ono vbow story Toan telling abovod . young plent thrusting its head ·MM MATI BUILD A LOT 77 abovo the rurf.co In fant for den I kopt od roful focord of zay om and orch day decorarod moro plastu. Thath, I wanted the number of plento onoh morning cod found a larger pomber cery time ro osumlood tho Bat Bat mono of theme now plents did not come abovo tho portaco antil muy day after the first ono hd abown Ha head. In other words, somo were now to start, other qulck. Bomo vart klow In growth othen Tow After all the plants had licent start to tho groen bouro Hr Burbank took the filet out of doon and put it in botbod whero glam windon could be pleood over the top ben bo thought neuery In a whort timo thoro vore two cott ploota ta opo dat which word growing wo much futer than all of tbo rest that Ir Burbank tbought it was to trumplant them o the other would her better obenoo. Hrad planted tbom into • bod and, again, ho mado careful rooorde us to the parentaro Only one of those fut groweru wus without thornue. Noverthelou, bo kept thon both, in tbo bope that the thomy on would ahor oharrotortation which would bo important to hba work Solootłons f transplanting OODtbved for even roela until tho original filet mu empty In the mountio many I tho Dot verloties whib cumo out of the fiut weto destroyou. All of thor which grow very dowly and woma wbloh grow falrly replily bat word oovered th thords were thrown away It wu not only th top pit of tho motor whloh Jr Burburt crumined when he ww dirourding those whlah ho bollovod roto rorthlom Ho onnod tho roots who To rrow mpidly Dy plant must have • pond unt of toota Roots i tho Opatia moto waally are not largo bt thoro To many of them, od they grow long dutanoon. As I matter of fact, thomuand mall roots viu gutbar mach moro molatur than ODo root u big around us tho thousand put togetha Tho parlare ftbo root containing the root bela, la what gathers the ·78 LUTID DURBAN Barch for vaak oharsoterlatia oootinosd us long u Air Burbank okerred the Dow Tarletion The Job of rohotlon le rolmportant that many poople buto failed at this point It bo qalto . dmplo matter to prodooo now vrloties, but it roqulra real ability to select now rarlotsen whloh are worthy of introduction The ability to doro Lopod only by asporlenos und Audy There woro at length, unly three plants romaining from the woods picked from tho frult which I uw Barbank pollentzo. Two of them had do spłnon Thono two word growing much moro napklly than tho ano with spina, although the spiny ono grow at loont e hundred ima u fut us Ito wild enocoton. That is why Ir Barbank rod it it might bo mfal u. peront for further experiments The other two without spino had become largo enough to propagato Boforo . Dow plant rold . quen tity of plants all oqually good, mot be shown to tho buyer In order to demonstrato that tbo plants will reproduce themselves with mildent socuracy to make thom of pretical Bo It Dowry with theso now varieties of oucti to grow fifty or hondrod plants to dopontrato what othors on do when thoy leh to plant * bolo fleld Tho propagation of varloth klode of plants to carried out in dl feront reye AD Ranual plant #moprodoved by Ita seda. Tho potato propagated by outtlag its tabors Lato plcome and planting them A plant (o the deblle la reproduced by parating Its tubers and planting them The Opuntia cucu la propagated by brouldng off all and throplag odo od lato tho ground. Tho common way 1 to dig a little tronch yo that the portion of tho slab which wu attached to the plent will be burled to tho ground throo or four Joobes-fo deep enough to hold A opright Thla slab will grow moro slabe from morere! of the many on spots vhloh Covor ita erlede to l1r Burbank und I brotto oil . doron debe from nch of the two por plants and ourefully placed thom in ·ME FATTO BUILD A HOUDB 79 trooobos. Thoso balon from such of the two planta were Lubolod and recorde roro medo in tho rooord book. In jut a low days, tush of these slabs wat out tray sproute from boddes and from tho top edge. In fox wool, wo hed . dotoo largo dotor plants to each of the tro HL Ur Barbank meamrod the area plantod to name of thow fast-growing cuotas plants and, at the end of twolto montbe, bo wulghed ovary slab that had been romorod from the mounarod uroa. Then ho had an actual rooord of the amount of forro prodoood by euch of the tro now variation of spindless auto One of thore downlotio on. meuured phoon of Lund produced tho oqual of nlnoty tons of forego per Loto A farmer who harreata four tons of falls well placed with the returni from an ord of lood for #00. o. Bat farmer who on hervot nlpety tons of octa por loro may roll bo ibo onry of he nolghbor How to pod bon to mako moro monoy from his forming brom the cost f foed 1 tremendonaly reduced Tbo other verlety when tortod, produood plooty-alght tom { forno por acre. But thoroworo not the more proliflo of 1r Barbank : Dow varlotion. Horontually produtoed one motus which ylolded at the nato of ono hundred and any todo por so to the third mom efter the original planting of the alebo Tho auota plaan ko pertanial That it contatto to grow your after year without being replanted The only work in ruing out t to cultinto botren tbo rov and hermot th labe, whloh are tender sad os ro oulont u gran. That ainetr-olgbt pe out of matuturo hu been ooo rerted toto valuable food in the greco slabe and a worth far mon than ordinary water u patrimont. It la not dificult to ondentaod thut rooh longo would bo worth for more than afda to tbovo livestock nim who live io dry urou where the costu dl thrin and where it oun bo frigatod. It is undartendablo thani ·80 LUTHR BUBDUTI It could bo poudblo to all one slab of tho now actor for ono thoquend dollar Mr Jobo Il Batland of Austrulle, who bought the fint ivovarlotles of splnele ootu hloh Ar Burbank sold, peld ono thoniad dollars for ono slab of the dow fast-growi & plant. Ho peld almost u much for debe of four other verlotion. With the elaba, he boaght the right to introdood thoso now Hads foto tbo watboro bom! •phao Thero five now varlotlo wore named Tho Santa Rosa (tho Odo for which Hr Ratland peld . tbound dollars) tho son ma (tho nemo of the country in which Boote Boer 1. loosted) tho Olornia, the frono und the Chloo Later on lir Barbank sold them memo vartothes for lotrodaotlon in the nortbom barbrpboro. Lot Oonalder the apparently fabulous prloo peld by Hr Ratland of Autoale, for iro debe of plaolew com. Did ho ran any risk of losing these act by tbolr failure to grow when they had finished their long talp halfway around the world! Of couro Mr Burbank gruntood that the out Klabu would survivo the top to Australia or be roplacod. Ho had made many terta which were much more trying than the trip haliny around the world. For example ho bad hang 1 slab of motus from ropo tied to tho Ilob of a treo wbero It had romaled in tho hot Oul Lornia sunshine until it appeurod to bo thoroughly dry Ko took it down after many month, and planted it to the roll It Immodiately went out roots and started to TOW Yen I urrired in Santa Ros to work with Bir Bar bank, I wu given a roon la he old bome, off which we dark clomot. Odo day w 3r Barbadk sad I voro talling ho ukod Did you notice the lab of cotus in that cloroti "Ro I told him, "I hero bed no doudon to opon tho ·MATO JUILD A HOUS 81 "Let's look at I now noted lr Barbank. Ho pallod back to ourtain who had covered the door ad Ebero on the floor luy largo sotw aleb Upot in my growlog - DoW ulab which mu fully ton taoba lang it mu catirely in the det It had no rotro of mobkoro other than that stored in to own body It had no con- Deotion with the rol. Yet then it was grovmg andor thom drou musthanoes. Ifr Barbank solid mo that tho octo hed boon in the dart olart twolto moathi Thl be hidraton of the hardloow for vhloh ur Burbank elny looked whon ho molected now plants HD would noroc tamorout himnlf in . plant which bod to be pamperod. It had to be able to withstand much violatudos u lack of food, look of moisture cold rosther dry weather dou, and doutraotirotopoota. Aftor Mr Ratland had boon growing the opinola auot for rotorul youn, ho wroto to toll Mr Barbank that tho now varlotten word thriving plendidly In Anu tulla Tho ouotus wu valuable OTKY your but in two dinoroot youn of droath, the fast-growing for so bad mado lt poouble for farmaci to mto the lives of thousands of obmep. Not only wai ho pleased with tho rout of his parohus, but ho felt that the prloopold us oven low than tho Dot Tartatlan woro rorth With the four thoonnd doller which Ir Burbank roostred for the firo quoti elabs, be built hiroll . Do homo. Up to that time do hud boca liring la o vay mall old bowo wloh ne on his Santa Ron lend. Ho bullt hu now horno sorom the proof In devoloping the spinalo anotou, Naturo outdk ber roll with Latbor Barbant' halp Por bodies fooding oom and shoop tbo plante protho oppothing fruit for human food All tho now spinaten nalette podave fralta, od uomo of them or darelo pod pertieolarly for the rulu of thotr tralte Prokly pear trulta may be bought ln muay dtton today od pomo of them como from Bobank vado tles of spoel acta.

·bo pontod 89 LOTOD B Not all tb, froito hovore in entirely spinelets Most of them have little alasle of sploader which shoold be rabbat od with a hairy peper so that the fruits on Inuido is a delicioas jaloy moet well Alled with eod. For delightful breakfast dith, thoto fruits and out lato ploces about the dis of a largo onwbery and eaton jiko itrawberries with sugar and cream They may also bo mooker and muce lato premervou, jurn, and jellten. Some houwuivo wo thom to supply 4 color to other (ralt pro to, to icon, and to confeccione Barbank motu slabs Day aro bo med as food Tbo tourner laba peolod and cat tato duoen, are frod in butter Tho jalee of the alaba toplendid Ingredient for auddy Hans of the racletto doveloped aspeoually for fruft prodato tramondoo qoutitio. Oso slab continod forty throulart rod and yellow fralu 8o prolifa roomt veroties of fracting wou that their po thom u ant mouprod In bwhoto por portbot in too. As much. oso hapurod tons of frult baro beon barvnatel from an OT one of thoro varieties after it houl maturcu nad pro-duong its atmort mm ralt och your No other fru t crop « any kiod has oror produced rue quant 15 There Agardi en so oubollorable that it la not at all surpriate that many Lortieulturists who noter rhaited Bir Burbank ground, and so perde uy the actual prodaothrity of these plante, conddered such #atemonto Lalo when they rero Brut made Lovete thoro who my hoy choy together there plante grov kod bor many alaha thoro ero va plant, and then ovated u fapt us forty Around romtime ifty largo frosta on s slab cold Leliore the wroighta piron Hr Burbank relghed the fralu may time. llo malgbol them from meuared arcu and cooputed the total production per acto. He thea publlohed the garot In hitralo rolamo kotoblography ·TITI M MAM DUILD A Doon 83 Tho rumo It Ladlocult for person who baro not worn filold of coto to belloto that thcto cool lo my rach Todachoo l that their thoughts or nad upon the par Jag of trece in an oroland Burbank enotu Hantuan bo grow alono Logothor , bilte or com Am many Yarlotte grow to bo eight feet tall. The plant literally covered with lo long thick slabe whi h bran loft Dear the roond and continuo to branch out on all midler to the top of the plant. Tbo frults from all of the turface of them alaba-not jurt on the mil or around the odgo Somo of tho individual frulta molgb a much on bula pound altbough tho arenaro wolgbt la loro Frufts of diseront narketlen ero of diTorent colors whito marlous thedom of yollow green onago plok purplo, orman a vivid blooi rod und Momo are much * dark color that they are amooot black Thon von iro dimotli to describe In godora!, thoy do not tasto liko any other fralt. Hont of thom aro olightly irect. A fow aro alightly Add Tho fruits of tho wild onotu Laro been dul in many countries for many years crocially in KAMA wlien other food are not availablo ODO Umme Profcmor Trotokoll of tho University of theme Grooco, told lir Burbank that tho wild froits of the Opuntia ato tu! by million of people around tho diediterranean Ben for about thrro montlu of tho you The Molitornant propter from quently sonk the wild cactus fruita in mom witor whleb toy tlapk improve the flavor Trofomor Lontato mil that bo praforrod hall . down good cauctor fruits to tho bar Leofdtook. Ho ww montare tu tho produotlrity of tho now Barbank vartoties, and with tho so of the fruita that bo uked tho oficials of his gnyernment to Import pomo of tho now kids to improve the food for for the proplo of Creooo.

·80 LUTHB BULBUT ono prodolog the roaller peus. Thus, ble oompnay bad nerlotion which wo not availablo to oom potiton. It bould be omphuized eget that the pos all dono without any crowlog for thero ero miny plants which can bo Improved this way Farmers have long known the Tuloo of wolooted wood, and when thoy pick their rood OOTD muy take only can of the typo degliod, from tho type of stalk which the former llor bost. In this was com has been developed to such an Ideal 1 stato that tho can grow atjant tho Huht height on the Halk mo that they may be emaily grasped when they ar belog hosted. Ean bevo beon mado to an out ll of tho spa.co on both ends, and have boon wolooted to prodaco well Alled kornele in straight rom which grow Olomoto gother on the ob Whllo hybridlding nodomsry with some kinda of planta, pocially when chamotorlation of those wblob havo grown far apart er to be comblood great deal of prowork oun bo dono by careful solictlon u Mr Burbank sted peu to falAll bls poollo order Not only this Itenco, bat all of his work dom.outrated that planta an be made to order r YEHDS PRODUCE A NEW FRUIT Blnoo tho time when Lutber Barbunk had oparl. mentod with woode in the cow posturen of Now England, bo had bollored that there aro ponudbilities for improving plants who havo bocomo peste to the farmoni bilo bo worked with many diferent kinds which novor produced anything of valdo, he mucoooded with reeds of the Nightbado laply to wbloh belong tho co-ooded deally night hade It was because the tomato lo relatod to the nightabado that people were afraid to at the tomato fruits many yennego sua matter of fact the potato belong to tbo momo family whloh aloo Inoludes many reede, iro of which Ir Burbank finally portiedod to unita ·NEW LAM KADB TO ORDID 87 One of them veade hoy tbo klontifo namo Solare mrak. Its origind homo is in Afrien. Another mo damed Soleren villorum It aims from Europe It nu Ir Burbank', plan to mako thero reeds into . now plant which would bo mful. In addition to the fact that one of the roods como from the southern bomlopheco and one from the northern bomlapbero before being transplanted to the restom horolspbero tho botanita dewlied them for part Nr Barbunk or perimented with them for your baforo ho could prodao u sfoglo oro. Ho arried pollon from one to tho other but the blood thus pollintzod did not product moods. Homover one of his most valuablo obanotariation while ability to contine year after your regarder of doooungomeats and finally in the winon of 1000 bin offarta roro rovnod with mouch. Ilo pluntod the woods to bila groenloor and when tho wooding shovod their loa rau Abo vo tho mrao of the soll, bo roulled ut onoo that ho gain had something entirely now although he could not toll whother the hybride woro of my Taluo or not. Ho transplantod thom Into the garden, und in timo the now plants blowomad. Oso of tbom did not prodaoo frally but the others boro [rult quito abundently tho frutt wu dot largo and its flavor and other charactertio voro estrely disertat from other post It looked 100 what liko largo blasberry and it had . plan tng detor whorow both percata boro fralt with flavor that oould not mully bo endured, and some plants of the family wero polopou Mr Burbank welosted two of the best plants among tho tvonty which prow boost they born maro frall, th frult wu larger und the fator mu moro planetog Tho woods of thou hybride rem redeod they produced plants Io tho original soodHng when he rain to gropa in po Forn in the mild olimeto felfornle The fact that tho planta roproduood thotelow from boods vu completo oridepoo that be bed o attrely new spode.

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·MAITI KADD TO OBDIAS 89 knowlodeo of the relationship of cortalo plenta. For or amplo ho bad often andered what could happen if he anted tomato plant on a potato plant Ho know that they belong to those family group wallad Solanaceae Bat tbo potato belongs to the geau Salama hil tho tomato belong to the genus Lycopersion. Ho thought they could be muftod but what the rorolta might bo ho could not toll so cutting off the top of tomato plant bo grafted it on potato plant. Thea boost the top of • potato plant and grafted it on tornato root In other worde, bo mado tho combimation both payz Tho results were astoolabing Tho nov plant whlob wu tomato above and potato below grow tomato froito abovo-quito Dormal frulta, too-whilo potatoes doveloped underground. Hovover tho potatoo voru not all normal. Thoy won small twlated Robby and disoo lorod. On tho other hand, the plant which wu potato Abovo and tomato below prodaood nalther tomatoes nor potatoo It is true that thoro vero como strange growth on the potato plant aboto ground, but tboy varo not potatoes, nar vero thoy tomatoen In order to orphain this morphing dovoloproant, it be Docery to roer to the mothod of growth fa planta The root of plant tako up toodstore oontaining our tain mooral which the plant Deoda Thle mobbard mot up through tho stam to the later The les to combine tho mo turo and its minorul vlth arbon dioxido which tho lau To thomxlr toko out of tho ar Tho obloropbyl in the loul brings about the chomloul otango, for it aly chlorophyl vbloh aan teko the power from tho run. nr to start tho chombol luboratory in its produotian of food for tho plant. The food is carried to all parts of the plant, including tho toota. And it only on this food that any part of tho plent oun thrin.

·DO LUTKB ADA It huy to understand that the food mont bo different to different kinds of plante, for the retult of tho to of the food is quite nuried Therofore it would sem necer #ry for potato roots to have the food mannfactarod by potato letra In order to develop taber. In Ur Burbank test car ils pot mrpblog to find totostoas on the plant which had tomuto hranotes and Imera bear the tomatoes recalled the right bad of food Bat the potato plant received tomato food, not potato food, and so tho tuber vero very mooh distorted. On the other hand to plant which had the potato for top could not produce potatoes doderground because tbo plant did not wnd out tho necemory underground remu, oren though it received potato food. In the Ano way It would not be expected that i bo potato top sbould Iroduce tomatoes, oven though tho root na tomuto root because the root appllor only the rawtertal and not the digested food. It is tho diganted food which gives the plant its cbarctet bir Darbenk dbdot And any dim culty in rafting the potato and tomato It is too ubat they do not havo Woody stoma liko trees but by using long diagonal cut to madlo mocemful grafte. Ho placed tho two bat portion tightly together sod, to bold them la place tkd twino tightly around them This, of course, wu dono qulokly that I tho cott rere not exponed to the alt for mort than a few moonds Within a few days, the two portions grow together and the two could be romoved The sential feature lo anning is to connect the two portion of plants in ruch nay that tho growing porta como topothet Tho growlog parts quickly mit them relem to each other and prodavo tlader wblob giro strength to the unit When tre uo mitod grafting luued to cover tho wound until it beole Bat when ruch plants - the tomato and potato, aro grafted Tax lo not at all peter uy Following this Ade technique, people wboard ·M MUITO KADI TO ODER 01 Interested in the motor baro found it ray cay to graft ono kind of cactus on another The two grow togetbor Tery radilly HALY A MILLION BTRAIYBERRIES-ONE GOOD With 499,999 vorthles planta u the revalt of poveral yeun of work, boy could nopono koop ont Host man would have quit-bat dot Luthor Burbank Ordinary folks would beyo weakened and offered one for melo which marly mot tho standarde-but not Lather Burbank Ha bigh standards would not be abandoned oren though ho dover found good #rawberry It vu thos firin odborcaroo to those senderda which medo hle good rapatation Ho had dotermined wha ho wu olu - young man that bo would keep his stenderla high-alway! Thoro wero 499,999 worthleen Ode and then camo. prizo. It was tho bost trawberry to the world. John Bar rough the famous natonalbal, mld it wu. Ho uso nathostatta that he wroto custen sodaron advising thom to purohun thb ruloty which had boom numod tho Palagonla otrawberry Ir Burbank had lot him out. hendfal of tho now verloty und ho know that it would bo enjoyed by everyone who ato it Tho berria uro bomo on . plant wbloh grow vigor obaly and is admirably adapted to commercdal planting Ita foliago dark groen, thick, and thrifty The fruh grow fa olacton which stand пр from the ground. Thl Lan advantago in both mordat growing, boonano It pro vent the barriles from being splashod with mod during notorrol The fruit 1 DO larger than to otha Titletion, but it is firm in torture, a bught om on in color and it hu yellow flogh whloh mota it apart from all other wboro flesh white Furthermore, the Patagonia boen fruit throughout the ammor It bollo ver-boering," ur Burbank thought that the over beertog quelliy vu brought to it by ono of its parents who amo from Chile Chile bolog in tho southern hosphore ha t growtog mua? Our winte ·LUIT BUDAK When the plant wus brought to the northern beole ophero berotbo mesmo ant porerned, it woumed to be confined and contin nod to bloom and produco falt thronghout all of the months that wro rerm cognita Thla mmo obaracterletto bed dorolopod in apples while Hr Barbank brooght from Nor Zewland und In rhabarb which bo omo from the southorni homiphoro. Y bother the ta tho truo 0806 or not to diftoolt to my At My rato, It is an interesting pooblation Tho atrawberry bus vido dlotriboton throughout the world. Some worlatlo grow in Patagonto, at the mouthorn ood of South America. Bomo grow in Alaska. Bome grow in Norway wbero tho kuny aro pory short and tho winter very oold. It was quito natural that Bir Barbank should pot variation of strawberries from thono faramy place and combine them with other One of tho Amerian varlotlos buod in his work we a plant which be had grow u. bay ln llamchamotto. Ho doveloped • vhlto strawberry from it, but this verbody ww not us production bo falt it aboald bo ro it was not introducod Io dal von to strawberries, bo prow blueberries CDberrion quaw borried bulalo berriou, balloon borrlon, and number of other. Out of the orperlmanta, oply. two balloon berrios vero introduced It sa Important to reoord theto fallure because they dro roprerontative of many many mors whilob bero pot been mentioned and they indlotto tho diculties which ho encountered. Hovorer lack of recolta did not in the laut dimeouts go him. Whilo bo us oiporiou otot duny Llares, howu berlag . fon Roaches and thororoo come sero profitablo enough to rapport blm in hla vort and they mro blm wough encouragement to keep blo racking toward bio cboren poul. Parlords ofton makt strong toen Wino meo aro Duter afnald af Aldren Urually they do not all the lack of Torolta falhoth, but they dep towar power wheh mot be taken bolors the goal un bo recebied.

·13. THE BATTLE OF THL FLOWERS Turbo in name, tho gledalus o alod bootan lao muggost the pad w the word of the Roman alltom. Lather Burbank we very interested to this loro This wu the flower which, when grown in the Bur nk testing ground, had to be defended with guni. It Domla waco tho pocket gophoo who bolped thorou o gladiolow balba growing on Ur Burbank's Sobustopol amm. Ho u pro proming nicely with the gladiolus when bo gopher morod in. Tboy work underground and it a long time before tho demago thoy ware doing wu Bororod Tho pookot gopbore maldom room on the rurfnoIt Higulong tunnale, pouhing the dirt out through openinga Loro and there but staying well prorootod beoorth ft. Tbo tunnels uro moldam Inge mough to wablo the Little almal to tum around but the pocket gopbar on run backward u eully - forward. It has a nattro tall which foole the way bea tho gopher ram bookward. It was the appetite of the rondom little inimal which autod the destruction of not loud than ten thousand dol Lan worth of bulbs at Bebastopol. Ordlaadly . pooked gopbar mats to root of trees gram, and grain. But bo Dowkode of gladiolus balbe whlob it fand in Mr Barbunk , tasting lot moued to place it so mooh that it moved fo with lite rolsticas and systematically pro ooodod down ano toy aftor another dovoortg balbe It wont Thero wote groet number of these calme, and so tomondot u tho dumugo that Hr Burtanks had to giro up bu arpalmenta with tho gladlalu olbo pould get rid of the poolon gopherThe u not oury H. trlod polmon and gu, ud traps Bot Dono memed to be toottro ·04 LUTHER SUBBAYE Ho foally discovered an eatometto gun vhloh shot tho bopbers underground. It me qullod. gopher gun, und wu ploood that tho gopbor pool touch the trla ger vhloh dobanged a load of powdor Thomo ropber gure Willod thirty Aro or forty rodents overy day and orontaally tho gladiolubulb ostonweri attormlosted. alr Burbank had began his orporliaonta with bo gladiolus in 1882 Brost of the kinds thon Ayollablo rero hybricka vhloh had beon created la Baropo Tho gladiolan of ourse reproducon ita Had only by bulbo vben soods Lro planted pow merlotlas aro courou. This beautiful flower originally oum. from South Africa and Mr Burbank arly moured balba from ita Dativo borne Thero ho eroond with the Europoan var otham At fint the recolta of ble work with tho cladiolus were very dla ppolating Tho blowroma Carlod qalskly la tbo warm Californlo run sometimes within an hour and the whole plant gevo inuloution of not being thrifty For that reason he fint efforts word to get stronger plants und blousons wbloh world witholend the sana nya ITO wlso welcoted for a momo un form omngoment of petak, Tbo Bowers of the early klolo woro not at all ytadion cal, and not to beautifal os tbomo vo bon today It was long time beforo ho bad now varieties blob werd pleading to him Tho first ono introduood wus named California. The blouson grew on bardy plants and had many outra petal, but tho most important now fouturo In this Cal Jornia gladiolu ng it grout profusion of blossomy. Thoy from all around the flower walk, almost u tbo biorom of a hyacinth grow However the Cal fornia gledlotos sover reached the general publlo It wou mold to an autem dealer who through tome care acee, Lort the ontire lot of bulbs As soon as Lother Barbank hod hardineu bred into hla hybrid bo began to reboot for flower ATUAgordont on the stalo About the time ho nu boglaning to haro ·TH BIT OF THI Town BJ Tow1 food malts, the pocket gophers moved fa. Huht yana thoro rodonta lasted for moreral your Bat aflor bo felt that he had eliminated the danger from under found attack, bo begen another seriou of experlaonta, Ho dorolopod momo nov niciotto which had two rows of foron on tho item lostoad of one Somo hed four A few had their flow broad pinally eroun tho florar bolla. At the sono mo, bo onlarged the stro of tho bloom and Incround the quality and beauty of the potala Among all thou hybetda bo hed ono ulot of whlok ho tu vory fond. In it tvo flo wors roomed to be forred into odo in ruah. way that thero moro tmelro potals tribupad of dr It is not cury to explain just how lIr Barbank could betul sottolpato a portala tendency to flowers. II. ability to forooort wou, of oath beod upon many your of orportance and carofal oberration. It must bo romom bered that ho etadlod cach now plant syitopatolly from tho Hot the first louro showed aboro the ground wat bo rekod doolelon u to whother it was to bo dentroyed or nord Aftor making millions of obeervouons of this bo natomlly Roveloped habit of preulloting what kind of flower would bo bordo on certain tyro of atom. 1 Ai un Illustration of the practical nature of this foroouting ability ho learned that when two light-colored arlolbon voro orouod it is very unlikely that. blonom of .dealnablo ooboe pouki raralt. Unully tho pow blow poto bo noltber whito por rollow A pelo plok cromod with whito gledblu is almost mr to proriaooflower that be too palo to bo called Nnk yot too pink to boalled white The Wowom is not at all attractivo In tho umo may bo learned what to expect from other corallonton. Tyhlle now verlotion of gladiol pero uraally prodoced by planting the woods of any gladbolts plan ho mado hondway feater by electing tho raronta and working toward 1 dolnito end. If he had merely planted my ·90 LUTH BUDIT whloh camo tato bio poder don, he would buto dopooded murely opon Ohance for roolta. Bat by wolacting the poronta, making his own Touch, wd working toward definito end ho vu qblo to crouto vulation which weto for moto prolillo and much moro beantltal than any that had been doveloped in Europa. To look at the blomkoms which appetred on his sort of tow parlatia w to feel that some pamarkablo urtlet bad. dealued tho form and color of the blousons for any of them were of an bobovablo bounty Indood, it was an artlat who designed thom-colortial artet for altbroerts ir Barbank gulled Notaro toward the end bo chemil Sotila wua Naturo working lo ber latriosto maga whloto from ita about the now bounty of forta agd ootor poln var TIIE GIANTS HAD A SEORET bo gladiola Oso of tho Bowers wbloh fascinated Wr quickly in when ho came to California wus tho Amarylli. kortr od ity For Amaryllis growing in the west 1 pink. fow yetti aitor to began bb works, ho roodvod t o plants Ho nurloo types of Amaryla from Chile Pera ol Mexico und South Africa and there boro Bowery petala. different sbaden wymdrotri It wa As bo looked at the blowom of those nurlour Ich bo somebox felt that it would bo pou blo to make blomwoma u beautiful u thone of tho smaller olsas, The thereforo met aboat to pato con lo every ny thi extra could But at first, bb osporimonta woro pot. Call Beedo vero Dot prolucea] Thero wu orldently notboy bloh bo bed Dot vonarlod und ihla ho orlan rolont to u the coret of the plants. Finally bo dimootorod that the pollen is borne by the Amaril dovet soteral days before the platil roady to recein ft Thu la apparently - prorlaion of Nature to proven tho pollen from fortilizing tho plul of the amo Borer After the potale hero started to wilt, the path Hpens wd tho cod barste opeu, proriding throo sloky ·TO JAITLI O til TLOYE. 07 Rarfsoos on which pollen muy bo roolrod from momo other boom which to fut bodding the pollen. Aftor ho lourdod tho "secret of the plants bo polostod Bovon beurtne pollen und kept them in boxon until tho throo sticky portico on other blom word ready Thoo hla roulog rovato in kooda tho poda wero plented, and not Turista amo forth. A. wu hile common experience, the first one sppoured to haro do spoolel aloo Bob uain this did not die coango him and ho medo Contos totwoentboro now kunde, though tho woond gecoration was not much better than first ho comindod to oro util, in the tenth gener them from the original, glont blowou vero produced. o of them mournurod tan Inetas LOTO. Somo had 4o potol then arlotte proflotały kovo Tho oolon Owlod from whito, nripod with rod, to dlaer flery tourlot Tho Amaryllis multiplies by offaboots from the balb * other vorde, additional bulbo grow from the original Domoh your Then will thom produco plant which Des flower Hko tho perent Thile is the only ny that. Dow Amarylle on bo multiplied tho toode - not roproduco trao lot of the spooles with whilek Mr Burbank started to Gato ha gent roald produco four or firo now bulbs in year but the now rulotion hed u meny u ofty in your! Comequently the new Elody mulupilod much tastor Thla u kroat advantago to poc demun bo bonight. Butonut Gout Amaryllia to introdaoo. Inderd of having Aro balba to null, ho might havo ofty Another abanscteristio of prollippoured in the now kind. Instead of prodaoing on melk from bulb four or flro Hallo grow somo had n many u twain down on anottom ! Abo tho balbe of thoro Dor kuda pero gooolly largor A larg stalk gror from a largo bulb and a largo blomnom Dode u lorpo stalk Tho now plants who glenta ·08 LUTHI DUBMIT from head to foot so to speak or more souratoly from bulb to blossom After Mr Burbank bad . logo oolloottom of thoro planta in hle garden w wall us blommoming plants of tho many foreign Amaryllia, viding horticultoriata, roode men, and chantlets stated that blewu tho bout oollootloo of Ameryillion in the world. It incloded thu grontari di vorulty of forme, and the most mual indivktuel planta. Awa matter of fact, ble garden hu dover boon dupli autod anywbora. It ww not a formal garden in any no of the word ho did not plan ble grounds to bo i show place. But the planta in hu aperiments woro wo doural and wo attractivo tbet poople who come to let him word foronated by what the When tho Amarylle osperiments were under ny ho hed many now varied to roll each year In August, 1 00 bo mood e catalog entitled "A Bebol Detoripto Llat of the Now Burbank Glant Amaryllia In this antalog b doucrlbod one hundrod and thirty-ahi o w kinde Them were offered at prioce naging from $8 up to $3.50 por varlety Tho parohrvo prico Included all of the bulbs of the dor nrlty in eslatonoo Ho kopt nono for him self and ho had bold nono prorlomly Bo tho purohaver hod tho cicluriro right to introduce the new Amaryllla. Ooo of ha poy hybride allod Narinnique www des albel In tbls catalog u follow A TORTblo how hybrid of tho Sprekelia formosia RA Or Jacobean ly with the Amaryllis (hippeastra mittata). One of tho most uniquo hybrids which has been proddoed among the bulbons plants. The flowers and fiery, crimson Iho those of the Jacobeun illy but very mooh largor being atro locber in diemotor But moto remarkablo are the long of tristal whlob give tho Bowers . strango ap foond anywhoro che unong tho A: "Laren uro pelo gron, aprile Inch wido, dghteeo to twenty Inch ·THI DATELJ OT M NO . flory atoon on leader stoms ons wd opo-half to two frot long-rally tvo foron to auch som I hero DOT produced 68 lengo balbe und 57 mull Otvor of the Dow hybeld. Pro for the wholo cook with out rewart, $350 As compared to his high priood nurlety bo deroulbod kod which bo wu Wing to roll for $8 w follow "Cheur red largo Hght-green foliygo, no stripou ou flower but shading of crimyou and whito toward the bum of each potel Throo balba, $8 A nroy wbloh be offered at $240 mu dowcribed - follow 'Early prodiglons multipllor Puro doop woerlot with bodo of orlmon, no stripe. Ight green follago. Two to four Bomo o cuch hell Flowon olght inoho rom Petul thrro inabas wide Hought about throo foot 150 bulba, $140 Tho tota) prion ho ubad for tho 130 marlotion demoribod in the antalog vus 88,604 Wort of thom bad po namo Ho loft tbo damo to the purchase Thomo Dow kinds were romarkable u out Bovon, woo of them rompatning in perfoot condition for ton or travo day The plants had a mocrot. Mr Burbank Lamad the cod prodaood or $8 000 worth of . gent spoolen of Ameryll GIANTS AND DWARFS APPEAR You To boon reading Ako in Tonderland . tooden to his inconto whec bo n told that planta woro roon growing ddo by ddo with dwufu to the a portmontal grounds at Bebastopol A family prod or other largo plaats or mall plents -nover both 'ho orplaloed. Thila Hustrates how dificult It nu for thom pot yht I'r Barbank, grounds to belbeer 1 ·100 LUTHI BURRANT odoturring there. Whlo ho tu arparlmopting to get . fragrant alle, bo dovolopod vrlothes with glont bloomoms ten inobles sorom id he doveloped other with blonom only two inoba wide. Both of them wero attreotiro ono bocutio of its hoge dhe tho other boorline of the daintince Tho ghant flowen oro borno on stoms dix foot or Toro In hedght Tho loata were alio hugo in do. The dwarf pro bouldo the giant and bad short stom, mal loayos, mod doloty wbite bloom. There to all sorts of ooloni In this field of strenge bow nrotlen. Jeny were yellow Opo an offspring of tho glant alle produced a bloom wblob wu moet in oven tho tovor stalk mo rod Ono ww groen whern most ou no whito Tho utonlabing parlatone whloh who tocoully produood in fr Barbank. gurdan demonstratod that the alla la an interesting plant with which to osporlmont. Tho calls of our reprodnoes from balbu. Au that nocery to get new kinda bo to plant the mood overy olla mond ill produod now variety wbother . pecal roma has been made of pot. As . revalt of hb esperimenta, Vr Burbank introdocod Avo callus with the following names Drama Ecerbloom Frana flaut On Best, and Snowflake Ho also worked with annue, having at one timo u many - half million now moedlinge growing on ble Sebastopol placo From these rodlogu ho latrodaord two or speclen, Otto Damed Berbont and tho other Tartloun Tho Tarrytown nua beradiol brilliant arma foner which record the Grand Gold Modd at tbo Pan American Bupation at BoTalo u tho best and rabbited- and thern Tore larro mamber in competition. As Tus tho cha with rout of he now fore, the Tury fona mu odhalh prolific The original had noo stam growing out from the main stalk. The petals of out annus rompala on the dower talk after they bero fuded. Ur Burbank thonght thu en ur desirable characteristle ud polected for a notoc flora ·THI BUILD OF THI TOTIN 101 following the blooming period The petals of the Tan for drop to the ground us woon as the blowtom fado thou, the lower stala un look pout. This fumous Tarrytom annns rue produced by crom fog a nattro anna soared from the Foods Evergladan, vbord it u boon datically u Carma facado with the cultivatod nartony korn u Crory canne. Tho Floride plant prodoond large, lemon-polo flora. The flower of the Cracy nailed to color Probably them to poslee had noter boon fotood before and their doralopment had been aloog llocs different that, when the pollen ww taken from 000 to tho other tho rozalting hybolda proved to be most awaful in Ar Barbank . work Thla aromany borover wu not only Tbo ou uro pallipired qalto Lergoly by hummingbirds. And whon two podem u distinct us thoro Vr Burbank ed ero brought together dimeultlas often artro vben artiida pollinbinattompted As a matter of fact, Mr Bur bank worked for ofghat your boforo bo mccooded in maldog tho cromen, Bolor Luther Burbank', time, it had been the plan of than who grow the anna from rood to fillo off a part of the hard thick sboll of the weed so that modsturo miglt bo abeorbod If this mu pot done, the wood could not gec minato for long time. This toohniquo did not appeal to Ur Burbank beonam bo wanted to work with a largo number of rooda, to bo do riood mothod for min prodootloa. It us this Ho vaload the woods in solution of copper sulphato. Ho then pleood them in ntber courro in rol which had been storillised by bedog baded Ho poured water through the grural t frequent intervals The helped to provet fungou growth fanru denar would have become mogt 11ely If tho modo had been planted In ordinary sol Eren with the prepention, it required foretal for the woods to remoteto. Ho dhoorarod? P ·102 LUTHI DULUIK thoro mode vould germinato at a low temperature, bo got better reelta if the temperaturo wu kopt botron &o and 70 Tho temperaturo could be controllo la ka groenhour where most of his roody roro startod in fata The woodlings word transplanted shortly after thay abowod theres above the ground und in the month of Vay be again transplanted thom into the garden. Thero cultivation wu tho mmo u for other mode A large number of the woedlings were absolutely vortblow but peruleten boto meralti The Burbank and tho Taylor DNA juilled the patience and hard work ho had given them.

·4 NUTS GROWN WHILE YOU WAIT La Monchusetta, ma boy young Luther Burbank mado en el trips for the gathering of nats. Ouo of Lavorite vu tho chotnat Ho nu interostod In louring about the growth of tho tro and tho powlbiutton of Improving In. In California, bo ww able to any on Tork of this Lad on a larger onbe, Trenty firo chestante woro in babam flot shipment of woods and plants from J pao tn 1884 Tham oto plantod, und troo htah grow from them proved most haluablo in hla experiments Hybrids were made by cromong those Art woodling with other relation from Earope, Ohine und Amerloa, Brotally there were one hybr de with babita mo strange that tboy roomed to be now roos of plante Tho most utoalshing characteristio wu tho ability to produco fall-deed hestonta tn di months from the planting of the wood 1 Tocho vere traly infunt prodighes no not tro hed opor donio such thing befon mo for u anyone kney Host of the nat tro do bot prodao flowons or nuta unul thoy ero ten year old or bote. Eron then, the prop de often small and the troo l twenty years old But now Naturo hae ylolded to man patience and girea tho food dostred from the cheatnat treo in ruoha abort time that the crop might almost be compared to cop of grain or regotables, To bo moro, Dot all of the weedlinga bor dok o wexty In their lives, but many of them bord puts within olghton months from the planting of th rood. Each treo vhleh gruw from . red wus f. Not valoty ultboagh then wore important dmlleriter Boet of all most of tho brata prodaood on there hybride wens good to food.

·104 LUVUL BUMDANK Tho troos vero otton dot moro then twelve or oighton incha tal when they began to bear and it mus hard to bollore that they were rally treo Tbo brunobod wort corood rathor thickly with largo roon splay shells and KOTOO of thom bed from si to pino nats in woh thal, whorou most bestnuts beyo only two or throo Hr Burbank wu dolighted with tho galak roupon.ro of tho okratnut for this gayo him an opportunity to make many moro gogorations of hybride within a low roers than rould hero bocn pomalblo If the troon had not como Loto booring until they roro older Bome of thomo hybride moro mo ager to roproduroo thomelves that tbey boro oontlouously pomo nuta Hipoting almost every montb of the your Others bore nuts tro Inabas la diameter and weighing about an ounce. How Tor thomo largo puta vero urally not so good in dator uthor of modium abso As u rerult of this work, Jir Burbank Introdaced thro verletles of chic tautu ono koow u tho Dale ono u tho of and 000 us tho AfcFarland Tom Woro named for tho men to wbom tboy voro cold and then mon took tho rarponability of Introducing thom to orohardlate. Thlu wus to beginning of obostnat orcharding In Monachusetts young Lather Burbank bed doo gathored hickory Data, from tho bardy sbagbeck blokory whleh grons in the North Ln California, bo me to beloto that important repult might bo obtained by arou mg tho hickory aut und the pesan blob aro closely relatol. Ibo pocen, of course L pot hardy and lives lo the boath, modtly in the Gulf state. Front ad kill poow tre nd cool nights will provont tho puts from ripenlog Tho pecan wu the only satiro aut treo whiloh bad been dloped us an orahard tro at that there. Ita thin bol and its delightful latot made it popular Tho potan urcbard treo lo made by bedding of grafting, and there AO LOADY profitable pecon orebards in the southern maten By cronang sfth the blckory Ir Burbank bopod to ·Tboro en doubtlou two stop poney la the Import to make improvements to other qualities. Whend buty frulting, th cepartment rould attend OTOT Join that no amo man would be likely to complete thuh? Ybilo 1r Burbank medo pomo fort to bopron the hickory nut, ho left the main part of the job to kore Ito and tho Foo thich provon han bad the poon pountattbo ruloo of donloping the ITI LOVI HL. YOU UIT 100 to combining hardized with dolaotablo tasto 12 bo W not able to do hotovo becook tho thugbart blokory dol trio u Bante Rom or Sebastopal. At ooo time, rootrod specimens of not wblah bo bollored vero ybrida of tho hagbart and the peont. But the seedling Hloh por from these were destroyed by tbo posloot opher and he wu DoTot able to completo the tests with het. Tho dimulty in working with tho hlokory out le that tdoor Dot bear fruit until it ba ton or twelro youn old In Aber words, it requires ten or trelr yours to produco Do generation. This makes the work of tho plant Improvor Pery low ff bol going to creato many goneration of rybride. Mr Burbank discovered that one of the rourona wby ho hlekory treo (and peoan) growi w slowly that it Lovelop my extensive root system. In to couro of bila port, bo dotarmhoed that about ninety-ntro per cont of the growth during the first your underground. Book poorn modlig whloh hom bed roots from four to Lax loot long and an loch In dlaneter to the aim your growth, wbten, above the ground, tho young tren ru only about an Inoh high. Dent of the blckory nut. The first stop would be to pro duco hybelde which would come tnto fhalting waty to their Hrom, liko tho Burbank bestaat, tho woood stop rould be gron further dorth. Ir Burbank thooght that th crowd Ith the ninnt and the ·108 LUTIEI BUDAK uro olovoly roletod. Honorer tried this exporlazoak, bow With waloute, Laber Burbank, operimenta voru amazingly ronrded while work with whatnut No wonder bo called cou rariety tho Royal walout; It pro dacod nuts o mulablo and to such grout quantithen that one year's wrop from ono tro ru mobil for a thonmad dollars When the Royal walnut vu doveloped, many men in Calfornia vero planting orohards of English Malnate. It ww dipoorerod tbnt the rele of tho Royal nlnut produord rout sook n which the koglbab walpa: tbrtrade the English walnut tree ro much ka mbloot to dlous wbra graftod on the Royal root kook. Furthermore the Engllah walnut produced larger crope when it had to Royal walnat u tho food gathering part of the troo As boy Lather Burbank band gathered black walnuts In tho roode ce bis father a farme Woon he wrot to Call malam, bo ducovered that the English walort on the ock wulaut are related to eat other lo abro found . ack walnut growing in California which wus called tho California Hack walut When the crowed it with tho Eastern black rulnat bo got tbo raluable now ruloty which be called Rogal. Io also to the California black walnut od tho English malnut and obtained other interesting hybride. Some of thero grow at trendov nato. Furthermore they kept op the rpkd growtb your after your Ooo of them gert to be sixty feet tall its branches shallog daty feet of ground with tranh tro {ect in diemote when ibo treo wwe only sixteen years old. The fa unheard of growth lot nunat. Ilalton remarked about the beauty of the tree and Alf Borlank told them that it was only half u old us the Engllab walnut trees bieb vero growing on the opporto sido of tbo street and which were only olght lacba in diamstor at tbirty two yours of y ·TUTI GROWT YLI YOU WAIT 107 The remurkablo bow walnut wu introduced u tho Parada Then the roeds of tho Paradou are planted, de vill dovelop tato very rapidly growing troes, dmilar to the Persdor, bilo other pros liko dwurf The darf Day bo only wix Inches Hgh when the plant bealdo it a wenty foet high ! The brunabon of the Parador had tendency to droop Whilab added to the beauty of the treo. The boaro VOTO loop eod, matand of having the strong odor of the black walnut, they bed. fregrando romerobling an applo Although the Parodos did not produce a largo crop of Dortu, it ww ralueblo for the beuauful dark lombor whi h could be mod from iu trunk It ru comparablo to tho black walnut trwo of the East In tbla ropoot and inasmuch grov moro rapidly than tbor lombor troos, eod at the pero me prodaood the very boat of armbloot wood the Porados vu dostined to be of wory definlto valdom lumber producer It was first thought that, buonumo of its npld growth, the Parador would prodaoo noft rather than a hard vood Howovor compared with tho wood of tho ouston blok walnot, It wu found to be almost u hard Mr Burbank u ponsor in the Improvement of forost troon Mort pooplo bad codedorod the format troos more or low meblo little thought had been given to improving them. Bat the stultade changed vben the Parado demonstrated that a treo on grow into . market able crop in krtoon your Today the Importanod ol growlug new forests u vo gro y any other form orop widely recognizod It troo that most of the forest troen, ruohuth white piors, roqafro forty to sfity youn to produce a atop of loober bui there is no reason why the time cannot be greatly shortorod by doroloping fester grovbog rulothes. The Barbank axperiment, by producing tho ohestnut prodhgles and the Parador nlnut, bato prorod that it can be doce.

·15. FAMILIAR FRUITS TRY NEW TRICKS Although no ono believed that the tonder poach could bo made to grow vboro temporeturn descended to fourtoca bolov in hie characteristio manner Ur Burbank not about to increase the herdidow of the particular fruilty #o that it might be podblo The idea of breeding troer which would be immuno to deux and insects we considered to bo the flotion of dromer This keptictam medo do difference to the plant maglolan of Santa Rom Ho started to cross poaches and Dootarioen in 1895 with the bopo that he might prodao Home Der Hode wbloh would be immuno to common posts and which would withstand cold winterI lobod to widen the territory in whlob thomo dalloloos fralta migbt be gTOTO Tho tarlety called Ver mu kaown to be roulstaat to curly leaf o disons which wu destrooiro to many pomoh orcharda. Bo ho dooddod to run this with the posturino whloh L amooth-Inned peach with white flooh It ww tho dlatb generation beforo bo had now varloty of peach which he thought wu worthy of Introduction. It mus namel Opulent The troo ya vigorow and prolific. It started to bour frolt whop It ru ell qulto young The fralt bad a wbito akin with nomerot dota and shades of both light and dark crimson Tho flesh wu pelo lomon yellow and tho faror mu delclow. Meny declared when thoy tastoj it, that it was the most delidow of all poachen Tho de tree mod restant to the curty loaf door and totus mado u for north - Canada abowed that it would enduro a tompotaturo u low us forty degroen below Lo runs following the low temperature, the Lord ·PALAB TROL TI TY TRICOS 102 Opalad treon boro fall cope of pescher sithoogd other peach trees led by the revero cold. 19e tho Opruled bud Dany anorul ebancters which Tero of ralos to the orchardist it backed shipping ability It could botod und wold locally but It woald pot arrito In perfect onodition when shipped entirely across the comtry JIr Barbunk hiter introduced two otber yaraties called tho Leader tho otbor called a ational But he did pot dop there. Ho bapt on with hb aporiments and foar adaltional Turleson may not be purch wed from puneryToen with the pimo July Elberia Dortat'. diant, Jwly Gold, and Butaut'. Over Freestone. The Judy Elberta a related to a Barbank'. Motor ploce." It ripens twoty day beforo Elberta. It Loary when only two years old. It is bardy dolog well in Canada. The flesh Arme falog and dollcon Shippon . It boon to it arttro at distant markets in porloot coodition. It la Scoal for commercial orcherde. Dherbout'. Glon! . hope yollow free typo pench oftea mortng the wod hau Inches, and more on four Inoba to dlavetor Tho wood lorery all the trmo beglos to bear in the wooodd your and boun thrine after water of foartoon doroon below pro Bat it ta bort raltod for the botto orolierd, for it ca pot ap 4 roll u othon Tbo July cold big clear orno-yolbow (ruostoso pouch which peor curler than the July Aberta, It fun bardy young boerer und bald to be the best way yellow from top Rod and pold lo colo undmplondi whippor, 3tb notłyo on the market aftor being abipped a long dlatepoo. It ripods fronty days buller than te perent, the Alberta Indono grower reports that, boot of th ourlhes ud plond quality bo geba trom $3 to $4-20 butbol Hy orchard l. ln rootkom bora tom perstar pometimos goou to trunty four the great ·110 LUTHCB POLENT Burdant Uwan Pressions li doncribed u of hugo bo, of great beauty and of dollstone quality Ite loh l . clour poldon yollow iod the treo bean when try yomg and it is oxin bardy 1r Burbank also introduod two bedturtoe u tho rorolt of the work One boulod namun Old The other is old u Buntant. Blood Mactannt. The Flaming Cold b. do rod blanbod over vind gold It has rich golden orange flow of booo wool non and charapano sprichtlaan It ke troostono and tho stooo b omall The fosh ba firm which makes it . pood shipper It Hipona week beforo Elberta peaches and withetando temperature u low u fourtron degtore below tro while ita growers roport it to be very roofstant to dhon and rot Buriant Rlood Nederne to allod brawo of its blood-rod leah. It has the only omo OTO doveloped with thle color Roported by growers to bo free from rot and cucking it is recommended for local are only and ta awpecially good for tanning The almond he loro relatiro of the pench and Ne Barbank mado como interesting cron betwocu tho uplo-ben ved peach and tbo Languedos elmood Tbo two Irulta crowed rutbor readily but most of the modling had leaves liko tbo pesob Those which retora blod tho almood grow more rapidly than thome whick roomsblad the reach lo further experimente ho and what I know u tho donble flowering perobfrom China and Japan Tho blowoon wo about an toch add . qurter in damcter ODIO aro whito, some pink, and someo A deoparimon Thor aro dooblo Doron and look Uke roman. They ar proluced in ruch profesion that the trea uro splendid OVDJ DERIAI plants Horerer they are abloot to rollder sau arly loaf in the country The fruit of tbove troon is of no valoe, Tho took TSTY A Od tho ob do pot havo A food to By ·TAYLI BOT NYÚ TRIO 111 aroudag there with some of the standard nurtotos of pouchou, Mr Burbank u able to get som flowering treo hlab boro botter fralta bowOver there frulta aro moto Deful for cooking then for ating nx Ho continued to work with crotres between the almond and tho poach in the hope thet bo might got a fralt which would bo derinbło und veod which would be us good food u tbo med of the almond bilo bo mudo program toward thla ed ho did not reoh hb oblootin at lut not to his own mutta otion Thero rero BODO who thought that ho had what ho notod, but his randerds were higher than then und he did not introduco tbo niloty Ho ho crossed the peach and tho plom, tung Japanese plum and also plam allod tho Chlakamv- Arperloun merloty Porbapo if be could here continued thoro axperimenta long encogh bo vould bero prodaood. ronales poooh, u bo bad produoed stonelom plum. Thero or perimet show that it la anttroły powiblo to work torund. defuito obyoottro and reach it. H. u ablo to prodaoo vartotion of poachen wblob will withstand oold winters and whiloh Il bo immon to common peach perta. Ho bad plaood great ompharda upon treedom from mildow add ourly loal and his two pezon narkotle, Lauda Lod National proved to bo tatually free from the perta It bo dour that his outy determination to make berdi- Den oto of his chlof prindplee u justilod, fo bo growthy cateodod tho how to which dedoblo frulta oun bo grown. Thla Locompilham alone ms of milddont importano to arabibah Lather Borbent u world louder en horticulture A PEAR TREB BESISTS PEST8 If frukt over ver had to fight treo poste, that rotums vould be much greator Thie idoe nu doar Tory Doch in Vr Barbent mind, und ho contoually pagbt for tror which the porta wald not sttaak hon bo began his work with tho poar ho dotermined to ·112 LOTHES JUGUT treo which would bo immuno to injury by innoots or dheuma He mado Importations of a number of plants wad mode from Japan in 1884 and in this shipment tboro meo twonty pounde of peur woed. Then, in 1800 bo importad . largo quantity of the soods of tho sad pour from Chine Scoding of both there oriental Hnde vero mod intereating Somo oro fast grovers somo grow rory slowly Bomo had very good fruita tho fralts of othors word of DO Tuu Somo died after a low yoan of growth others roomed to be thrifty Ho wod tho sean that were Do Do Donly grown in Amortan u . OUTOO of pollen for crowing thono oriental species, and obtained meny hybrids. momo of whloh prodacod frult of largo duo id good quality But most Important odo of thom proved to be immodo to bught and other posts whlah infeat mort pour troo Ho workod with wedlings and hybride of the pear bow over for nearly twenty fro yaan boforo ho Anally Introdaced ono in 1011 with the namo Tex The Dow peur had produced to or throo timo u Duch frult u any other narlets and the fralt ww larger than tho Bartlet pour It wua tunnety liked by the Orchardig for it todoalty to droom and lowota Lad the good quality of tho fruit. Inasanch u tho peor the applo, and tho quinon art closely related, Hi Borbunk urlod croelog thom Tho thito frults belong to the roro family bat och ta danised fn, separato goot. Ho modo e pescuppl. hybrid apploqalace hybrid end pour quinoa bgballe The reodlingt gror rou but dono of them over blot somed. Norortbelen, vr Burbank did not bollaro that It musim poelblo to crow the fruits Acceefully Io con cluded that he had not und the right perlotion for making the crow, or ole had the wrong Individuala. From bir ozperialco bo know that tomo Idditidual plants will rodat ·TAL no TRY IT nuo 113 ho mu noter willing to my it rus impondblo to grow any tro planta inco a pour treo that prodaoca no tralt le of Tory littlo rulov, bo prompty voorgoed tboro hybrido to hla boadro. Tho rothon amply to prontod one of the many intero ting asperimenta ho tried withoni rrocco TV boa tho modling multing from tho bybridtextlon of to appl aod tho pour vould not bloom whillo growing on their own roola, bir wlod graning thom onto an Id apple Thoro tboy grow for a while bat did not bour any blomoms or frult. Approximately tho Amerovalta von hed with the hybride of the poor and the quince When it was realized that Lather Barbank Introduced two hundred and Allty or moro nov vartotdow of about fifty di Toront dance of plante, It might bo thought that overything he attempted vua mooom. Bat that we not Ho tried many moro orporimonta wbuah fallod than thoro whloh 2200ooded. It was his porttono in vpito of Aloro whloh medo him the worlds louding bortioaltarlet It mot be admitted that whillo Mr Barbank worked. greu doul with poun, bo did not produco opoagb Dow Tarlatter to fugify the groetendunt of work. Tbo moo conclusion mht bo neobod with respect to hla apert menin with anploe. Lo tatrodaced only two mortowie, bo Gold Ran and the Interstein Hovoror ho grav tboomode of woodling und thoaminds of hybrida Ho otirouted that bogor more than afty tborrmand moodling apples from the time bo began in 1880. In addition to the two be latroduood bo had boat ton others whilah Toto bottor la cortain roapeota tben achetty bnda. Yollo bo omod about no acto of plume u bon tron for hty plum orperlineata, b mod only one apple tree. Tho applo troo grona Yey moob larger than the pam and be muchle to grow u meny u fra hundred and treatyna wrathon on the opo tom to the Instead of nldog throogh row after rov u he bed to d when wetootin Dew plum, all that we Decorary with the appler ·114 LUTH KUEBATT ollob . stepladder and onmine the fruit on the yurloo dana dororing the troo. Those who valted hle Sebastopol place roro natóniobert at tho appearanoo of this one apple troo which corred odremel to there ftre hundred and twenty do vartoties, yot to Luthor Barbeak It nu amply praction orpo diant to pood op hia work without ang too much land. With the applou with tho pour bo watchod for verlothon which would be immano to lowoota and door Ho mado attempts to find urlotion of poart wbloh could bo usod u root sostu to giro immunity to applo uw when gruflod on the root soola. The osperiment, how ovor did not moot with quooom The Northern Spy applo i Immune to the woolly aphia, and bo toled to make use of root rooks grown from Northern Spy wode in order to trinant thi lmmunity But for como reason tha fomunity w not tropaferrod And the experiment fullod. Ho was inally able to out twige from the Northern 8py and root there in tho growod, whero tboy grow to tool.chant sro to bo ured u root kooks for other applo Turtle Daring hle operiments with applaw, bo Importad vart ou kinds from Amtralla and Now Zoeland some of theo rould not rond out any blossoms at all Other continued to kod out blowom the year oround. Ho mado additional couroa betworn the wild enab ar! Tarkety of applo called the Garcsteln boping to add tho hurdidoy of the vild merloty The Kodling wero Interesting but prodaod no non rariety worthy of intr duction A QUI CE TREE JYORKS OVERTDIE It is not cay to ballero thot , fruit treo can be threo aup per year oren in California. But apuer furor able coodilon the int qanco wala Hr Burbar ·TATAL TUN DR MIT TICE 118 introdased, tho Von Durna, produces three dlainat erope ach on The ont orop imody In September and is mado up of hug fralte about fro Ipohoe to dameter and relghing about twenty Ato ounces such. The moond crop la bar Textod in November and is made up of fruits of malla Hre, but of fast u good ileror and tutun u tho int crop. The third crop Lalki and le gathered to Do combor Thomo quincoa ero copedely good for baking Thoy aloo may bo died and canned. Tho Van Denar quince we ewurdod the Wilde Hledal at the rooting of the Amerlan Pomological Bochaty In Wubington Do in September 1891 It us o admired by Professor H E Yan Deman, who was thea obtof of the Divlidon of Pomology in the Unitod States Dopartment of Agricultare that Ifr Burbank Deod It for him. Tho druct parodtage of_tho Van Domen quince la dot cury to llat, bool un Vir Burbank medo aroon and on Tom of hybrid meny too before bo finally obtained • Terlety which to drained worthy of Introduction H. had wd moletten in there or partients which word kom u Orang Anu Portugal, Ras's lanmou, Wat Hanna, und Ohorpion. Ho estimated that bo bed tested boat fifty thousand quinoo seedimp boforo bo had ono vhloh ni vorthy Tbo Ya Daran koorn for its productivity itu obro, Itu globaler hapo, mooth skin, and attinetiro color It bu a sploy ils Tor and teador fogh and remmably hardy Tho roond_good quirico which bo Introdacod wu. reedling from Rod's Donnch Tule narloty bed beto dromed with the Portugeh und the cow Terloty ppeared ta tho thin geocration. It nus art allod the Santa Rosa but wu ronimod CW' quince after li wu rold to . Durman named Conde ·114 LUTED DURDAN climb a stopladder and camine the fruit on the murdon! cions covering the trees Thoro who valtod hla Sobastopol pleco woo wtónbhod at tbo appannor of this ono apple tree whloh brvod u porrmald to these five hundred and twentyabr varlotte yot to Lathor Burbank it wu simply a protonlarpedient to spood op his work without wing too much land, With the applou with the poar ho watobod for racletlos which would bo Immuno to Inscota and discuro He mado attompts to find verletten of part which could bo neod u mot good to giro immunity to applo trt. when grafted on the root stocka. The orporimonte, bor Tor did not moot with moccer Tho Northern Spy applo lo immuno to the woolly aphir ad ho trhad to make up of root stocks grown from Northern Spy wode in order to tranenit this immunity. Bat for momo Toon the immunity wu not transformad add this experidont fallod. He was finally able to out tulge from tho Vorthern Spy and root thom to the ground where they grow to rafiolent oro to bo tued u root stocks for other applo varieties During ble experiments with apples, bo imported work on Llods from Australia and New Zealand Some of them woakl not rend out boy blowony at all Otbers continued to wad out blower the year around Ho mude additional em betreen tho will arab an * Terlety of apple called the Gremonttein, hoping to add tho hardiner of the wild varloty Tho teodilogo vero Interesting bat produced to downriety worthy of intre daction. A QUINCF TREE WORKB OVERTDIE It is not own to belloro that frult tror oan ber threo cope per year oven la California. Bat onder able coodhona, the Art qold.co which air Burh ·TAILIAI TRUITO TRY IT TRIOT 116 Introduced ibo Van Dunn, produces three dlanot orop auch pun. Tho int crop body in Beptembor and made up of bags frita about fro inobou in die moter und roighing about troty iro ooncos cooh The pocond crop to her Touted In November und le made up of fruits of opullor dre but of fort us good flavor and texture u the first arop. The third crop 1 emaller und gathered in Docomber Thero qalnoes aro apedelly good for baklog They also may be dried and canned. Tho Vou Damen quinoo vu in dod tho Wldor Modal at the mooting of the American Pomologloul Rocaty in Washington, Do in Soptember 1801 It was o adintred by Profetor HE Ven Deman, who wou tbon chlof of the Division of Pomology in the United States Department of Agriculture, that ur Burbank named it for him. Tho cruot permotage of the Van Demen quinoo li pot cany to le, boogne lr Burbank mado Tome and I Cromen of hybride many time befoto bo finally btained vucloty which bo doomed worthy of introduction. Ho had wrod raztoties to those axperimenta which won knova u Oras Anu Porticoh Ross lenswoul, af. Vonmoch, and Chespion. Ho catimstod that ho hed tortod about Afty thouand quinco modlinge beforo bo bad odo which wi worthy Tbo Pax Down to known for its produotirlty itacho, It globuler shape mooth skin and attractivo color huisploy tayor and a tendor nah und la remoulably hardy Tho roond good quince whl h bo introdoood wu seedling from Rom Vonk The wroty bad been crowed with the Portugal and th Dor stoty appared in the third Donation. It nu fint oalled tho Sol Rous bot nu renamed MWW qulace after it wu 1 תיחות חחח ·110 LUTRE BURRATT Tha trao bour large fralta ead is very prodottre. The beautifally formod fralt lelmost white or a pale yellos Ite fond de tarder wol of . deletons favor und ibo cort hon very small any poople ooralder It equal to food apple but ating na The han und quality for qalace, for quloce, before the time bed boon kom u cooling froll only About Afteen years after Lather Barbapk heran b work with the gatico bo produced a new variety wbk croelled all others in the delictor eror la laot. It had the favor of the preapple, and wo wu narool the Phim apple quince I large and uniformu Erolt, of pleasing light Yollow color is good vben calon nay It cooks qnbekly omally being perfectly tooder in about four and belf minoto, and makes delicou felly with a strong puro pineapplo filtro The Pineapple airco prored to be the first parkety which soll be ablpped morconſolly from Callforple to Now York A California orohardhet ahlpped quantity lo twenty round piam onte lo 1010 Tbo arst shipponi mold for $3*v po prato--Joventeen kod oso-ball court per poindi Ir Burbank carried on many other experiments with quince As a matter of foot, he began asarly - 1884 to crom the oriental quinces with the Anderlan marlother Those con rover produced . treo vblch Loro blor om, although be grey thorande of wordling Howote, momo of these oriental Turleiles proved to be beatiful Bowering shrabo and were fotroduced for decorativo porpora. Thus the lowly quince the Anderelle of fruite with po real standi og ru transformed by tho plant toughean aod took it puco among the rondally prominent appler uod pan THE “PLURICOT ANSWERS ARGUMENTS in general Luther Barbank wu pot acerned with rales of clanilmat foto which to made beau UL ·JAVA mm nrm T. 117 atod wy now plante which would botter POITO man bd. Ho didn t and botbor tboro mero sourod by fat os catabilobod rules or prooeduro wroudy fochat ed, or whether thoy voro scoured in pom don may thoy could be had ho nanted tbom Ho falt that, if bo aloved himself to be held beok by 6oo of tho rulon, he would not be able to giro Tory Roy Dow plants to the world. Certainly no would not To had the pluncul Dow spoolo of rtono fralt oononing the bardinom of tho plom and the dollokous flavor aromy of the apeloot for one of the ralos qolto erally bollored we that "Nov spoolen unnot bo autod.' Sebentats living before the time of Burbank vbo Bed living thing tnto group had pleood tho Forum ulte into form allod Prou. Asperto polos Co wu dren to the plam mother to tho sprloot mother to the chorry and so on. Esperience up to that time womed to indion to that pooles and wo dlrtmot from each otbor that they aunnot combined. Nono had boon able to oro tbo pollen rom opo to tho other It we thought that it would not at all pomalblo for the pollen of tho sprloot to grow FH varo placed on the platli of the plam and I would hot be powolblo for the pollen of the plom to grow if I mero placed on the platll of tho sprloot Ir Burbank kon the rulo, but ho had boom rolom Lo bo unrollablo to other wu this partlooler rade portret 1 Tho sprloot bed any appealed to Ur Bprbank u. moont da talously flavored frut, but there were many ohmatce bore it could not thrtro. On the other hand, bb vork with plums had taoght him that plom treou to tho most hardy of all the Prunus gante, Ho had already wodood vith Prau trifora Jepunom plum with Preus nuoull Chinco plom vlth Pro Europen plut end with soal other per ·118 LOTUL SI His int attempt to combine the delicone flavor of the apricot with the hardinom of the plan you fallure The pollen would not grow on the oibor spookon, and It bootod on it thorobo in it 74 ito possible to OTOS plants of two distlaet spoelen might bere born right Hororor Mt Barbank kopt om trying to making the onunual tumor, he mothod was nemplo a orer bo plaked blonom from apricot tror und westtered the pollon on płam blomom. Ho also pickod plora blowomo and mattor ed the pollon from the catho aprioot allowom II those who bellorod ho mus rolatlay a Law of Naturo hod boes there they might bero tried to discourago bin. If bo had paid strontion to tho probibiuro ralow of mad, bo would hayo told himself long boforo that Natoto woold dot muko Reb & coa Bat bo know from his own experience bow ofton per Astenco had wronght towards often in Woolforta to graldo Nuburo in tho direction of plant denigra moto uwclul to map bad mula thousands od thousands of poenen bo ne bo btainol a singlo maturo recul. Plaally a fow food, 're prolased from con bow Do of his Jups Jurm and the preot As soon a bassy the do trmor thrusting tholr love aboro the ground bs rocognbed . combination of tho chancten of plumns and pricou in lbo bark, the loare and tho terminal bad. And when bo omamined tho foota bearerea moro astonishing manifestation. The aprioot ront an entirely diferent color from that of the plam Tho płom is trully pelo color follow or romollmo white but the roots of the apriool aro ral Tho Brt of bla hybrid moedllag hed dark rod toota An bo pacted largo proportion of the now sodlingi abowed undesirable chincteristian Bat following the practico bono oth plans fa order to rot froit mora quickly bagnafted close from the proming modlings od old plum treet so two or three yen be bogan to *** Lad of the new spedor of ITUDDA ·TAMILIAR NOT TRY MY TRIOTI 110 The frutt vore zelther apricate por pluz.. To bo rar, 3 voro somowhat the color of plums, althoagh tho Hot vided between the different seedilog. Too lowh mu to like the plum rather than ott like the spricot. But any of the rtona ruro almost crotly Iko tho uproot Ona, wolle e for much troombled tho peach llort of the it had tharp poojooth along ono olge which is hurroterotto of the sprloot hon tho frolte riponod and bo mado tbo tasto teat, ho roalized that h bad fruits uniwały delooo After a period of your, ho found that he had troca far poro rapood than those of the upcoot. H. bad indood, nado A combination of tho apricot und to plum, and It mus appropriate to call tho now fruit pero It was not often that Vr Barbenk cahibited his now rolta ai fain bat in 1901 bo powod pomo of tho now plamools at the Pan-American Expodtan held in Baffelo Now York. Not only did tho exhibit attract big crowds bf vidtor, bat e spooial gold medal wu struck by tho pmoors of tho Exposition and given to Ur Burbank Of pourro, thou now froito bed no olaralication at tho Expo Ation and wo do pelos moro offered When frutt so an u tho plumoot is created it olght bo thought that tho woods would produc odbor plam or an uprloot whea planted, bat the rooda produced plumoota--Duror płams and noter sprioota Thi Indi- Duted the creation of . box spoolon which perpetuated itsell through the wooden One of tho tint of the new plumoota w sold to Don IL Ratland of Autrella The nilety was Dared the Rutland plomot and Ur Rutland iptroddood it into the roathom bestphere, Including Africa. The Amo fralt wu introduced to the northern bomirpboro by Groorgo O Roeding of Prero Callfornia Nurmorymco fill well at least a Burbank plumcu with the following nema Apen, Corons Tho Punte und Orom.

·12 LUTAR DULAL Whon Mr Bor bank orored the sprloot and the plot. be showed that the old rakovu un atror other the into hud nos boca proporly clasified or bo bud proved that duthat species can bo cromad so it is not paspolocng that Hr Barbank felt it uuwied to try to set up gepenal com about Nature bo provod meny tlmien that Nature . pont Utos Aro Imitten. Ho otton wold with reference to the rules If man who uro trying to detertoine the rules of Naturo rould look for podthro roles, nether then Degauto oder, thoy might bo moro 1000 dal, and they might dico vor that that role would be le often thalatod.

·16. ROSES ON THREE-INCH BUSES Natanilly Hr Burbank loved the more 4. Tayooo Bo ho began work with it arly to his order cthog and croesbrooding ta. ny smlar to his techwith other foren H first introduction rum Ialog mom which mu allod the Berbank It wu avut - gold medal u the best bodding more at tbo 8t Loulu Lornatoa Kapodikon la IDOL. One of tho fatacting thing about the Bhubant rom that the produced to pomno what tho mo ny u . Berbank podalo That in mod pod wu found on Crow roue, which rroly boun moody Horror tho From did not come dirootly from the original read I did the Burbant polalo which wu roady for Introduoou woon utt had produced taber. It wy Doory b crown tho pollen from the poodling roue in order to put be one whlah wus Onelly introdnood. As a matter of fact, it wu sroring wbloh produod the Floor and other mural qualities of the Burbank rom. It b berdina Rafidoot to weblo It to be grown b pouth bra Canada and It wu room ropognbord u tho bardinet of lover-blooming tonn It controll to bloom through yut tho muro wowon, with tho rowult that probably do ther rumo protucen u many tndividual flowers to your u door tbo Burtont. Partups the strongest charactertitle of thl now plant wu that It began to boom when the woodling wu only tro or throo boobos blgt 1 Such early flowering bad borar boon board of bofort Another important cherretorttudo, vbich shonld be sor pheded to order to mako It clear that lir Barberk ru way looking for plants which would be redatant to pecto be that the Buban route immade to the attacka of mild und um ·12 LUTHER BURBASE Of coamne, ho used only tho mmo methods lo prodacing . rom that would be restent to the posts u he did to prododng other plants whloh would arold trouble for the grove Ho watahod the woodling, and if any modling ahored roscopublity to denyo by any dlouho or not, that modling na immediately destroyed Fortunately for Luthor Burbenkomporimenta, tur ceptibility to decoro urd lorecta i lloy to booomo apparent almost the fint your thoredling grow. If the now plant grow through three or four yours of tarta without being damaged by Innoots or dhours, it is quite likely that Iu Immunity bu beon atabllbed. Tbilo tho Burtant me most bosstifal row, thomo otber qualities Dord omphesls boonuso it he boon tomptation to some who havo grow rolling rose of beautiful color quality to introduce tborn rogurdloos of their sucopubolty to douro ed incoots In other words it la geodno tomptation to jud go ! now flower entirely by the blowom and to neglect the plant toolf. Pertups it wow bochtito Ir Burbank had boen o ractical gardener and nurseryman that lo roubad tho portanco of otadytng the plant u well u tho product o bo ted by man In order to maintalo the polloy of relecting only the hardlort, Mr Berbank destroyod thous inds of poodling rotes vboro blotoms Foto front promiso out whomo atoms did not como ap to tbo Barbunk standud Ho could easily hero introdoood many tbousands of 109 planta whloh the publio Dorer av Soodenco wool HATO booght many of thom it bo had given thom the banco Bat wa boy bo not he standards high, add bo w Lover tompted to vary them. Thoman who talkod to blo in tho than u be mu golog to California simulated him o put into words . polloy which emphal od bardiners of planta a chancertatio which bo vould novor noglost. Ho aborclected for keeping quality sad u restalt Ho had como veedling whoro blocomu lestod two ty ire or hirty days when lett on tbo bob and Aftoon or treaty lagi after belog cats ·LA O TRE-IKI POTED 122 After laming of the great quantities of individual Blop which Dir Burbank in order to got opo mu Forthy of latrodation poste people bero rofared bi methods u pon luck. Ho * oror 200 000 Ilongs from the aimson rumbler role which had boon od with other row. This wu pot just to sko by hybrid but it mu tocoury to rork with each aben to help Netun ollmirato the many which aro of mulus Whato vor The production of fost the right hybrid annot bo per uy controlled by man, but the blootlon con bo ooo Ded. And the wratlume can be brooght about by fortituatkan Furthermore wolections leotions for faturo widling aro mado by man w stops toward the goal ich bo has rot In several of Mr Durburk os pertinenta thout rtop bro not only tedious and apanafre, but douraglog o might hybridizo and cloot for tiro en in work Ig toward certain type of plant witbout getting very par to it. It is clear that tho making of conneblo pow plant in bt u onot. procenu tho tomatog of a plow round on Lathe. It might bo old to be oven more compllontod han tho making of an automobile. Automobilo purta hon der good perfootly on drawing board and oun bo ano tad on spoolely built machine with th knowledgo that urloor purta will 66 together. But in the making of low plant, the drawing board doelen. whilah, by the way roally mental design, annot be converted into parta bloh it together andilly Bo it ny Domy boununda, you hundreds of thoumnda of ro woodlog order to get alght which were tntroducod up to the your 1012 Thla dood Dot dlecoaro Amatour plant improvat, bowovet Tens uro times when the front dowing door mold better plaat it is true that it doesn't happen very often but it does happen something tho Derbent potato rue polooted from only two grov ·124 LOTIR. BUNUN seedlings Tho Bwrtant pluun tus selected from twer kodlagt The real compenwetton for the amateur plant improvet 1 to be found for tbo onerated variations which elny appear following overy cos pollination Kuch woodling murn to be diferent. Some of them will bo drenge and weird Bot most come produco at least ono poolmen which malates the plant improve to keep on with the work by polating in the direction derired Thero vero times when Mr Borbank did not find ovet CDH medling 10 ikhw wed to be developing in the direction by weated But becadeo be worked with many diperent bode of plants, thha did not end Lil wart To wa getting rerolta with mouse other plant oven thoug the roro hybride filon Be k pt on and on know bg ibat good mulle might bus up in any greatlon. Irerlous to Mr Borbanks ope JTDERT, Dout to had maid that Nature would not prodoc. blom rom La My Burbank did trodoro abide To OT the DBLUE ducou it with his help Up to 1012 be introduced eight rokes with the follow Ing Dames Burbank ad Blossom Coguito Corona laule Harmora Peact War Pe and Santa Rosa, Ono normers catalog lists three other Burbank rooon with the following Depts Copper Olimba Sportelle Olaber und Golda Sret. Dat etningert of all ble roen ru tho Bertanto biotics began to open when the brieb wu no more than threo Incbea blgh THE DAMLIA TAS A GOOD PUTIL Ir Burbank ofton spots of the planta In ble garden u popila bi u sobool. The would say that bo wu tylny to ach this papil to do od thing and that one to do something on Some of them med mediiy romo of tham did not ·though the nigrun u quito fint. Als Dond kop bo As not bybricha moro medo, be voleotad for at well us for other dadtblo chenotoritou. H Mw doood from thoso mods with other, and kept roode of those whlakı ploud biro, od wody faaly bo bad the root ono Ding die rhla hod POD ONTD. JOIN 125 Hongarded the dable Hoy mpondin papel. It u very muy to prodaoo now dabile and it wie gulto ty to produce just the kind bo wanted Our daulles ortglasly arms from Harlo rad Contru! porton Tbo Spaniards found them that many JOAN ago hen they congpered Handoo and the bright red cod yollow Hoc ep por led to the daqobledorim med that tboy at some of the tobom to Spain where they beaam. populer As a matter of fact, orperimenter with plants odecod many Dot Terlette beforo Y Barbeak tarted se rock Each rood that produced ons dahlka wil grow ito. how raclety The only treo reproduction of certain typo broaght about by operating tho tobora kod growing Hunt from each ooo. It Ls not entirely noooorry thero ors to make auto be order to get rarheiloa Bat H Burbank did mako crom, In order to work tovuddet ito goal Opo of the utonlibing resulta bo obtained muudable with ploutog fragranoo. If flower on bo altruotino la blo and form and color u tho dabile, there should be no rouens why I could not slobo attentive to odor Bot bo mado en oífort to find one or mors while hede plaats moont After working for a loog tlmo, bo nally abutode dalt a with freuden bleh reminded him of the membolle wa ito to ground this pliant with others in the bope that not on bo found with ploutog wont land sods d tho Pran As matter fluct, bo klade. Ho mold thro of those ·128 LOTHED TABAN end contimod bis growing and melootfon with other obeno terbatta to mind Lady of his dow nilotion bad det petala pon bad ororlapping petals and there were potel of many different ooloni. Ono hybeld hed for petals of A wolld color with the rest stripod. The dohlle was a beille llant popilla tho Santa Rosa plantaohool and It's a good plant for ADTODO bo wlabor to creato per verletlen. Hs Burbank's urperimenta vero larpels with the sloglo dablin. Today many plant brooders have been ablo to get Yory large and beautilul doublo dahlia A pardener not far from Roboutopol, Callfornle, bez dovolopod womo DOW hybrida wblob tormeloren and twelvo Inolia noroe. Bright yellow and bright rod lo color they aro porrots creation Hagt dabila may aho beroa in other plnom along the Paolo Court as well as Dorth of Bonton on the Atlantlo Cows There giant narlothes and bolng sold to many people in tho United Stato, luryo boaatilally formod dobila blommons will soon be quito common Tbo name of ton of Itr Barbant', dablar Introdaood propious to 191 ano u fallon Rwant Dand Berpen Fragrant Quant Yellow Golden run Brengold Lenin Yalov Vorstais Sebastopol Unique Salmon ·17 AN EARLY AMBITION REALIZED During all this time, Lother Borbenk dld dot forgot hle boyhood ambition to producono delay which would bo and whiter than any yet sooo "tho most bosatfal Laky ta tho world When ho vont to Callfornia bo tool pomno of the woods of the wild dairy of lumachunotta along with bloo. Ho worked with them for many youn beforo ho dnally had wat bo nato-the Boxer ho had droumod of und deworbed to his mother The Swot nu tho Toall of work with four diferent tode of datal-all of them smaller el louwlto tben ho fond product whloh so many pooplo today grow to her gardoor To woo with what Lather Barbank began to create the wow world-famon daky It la nocomuy only to go tato most any v pustan and get upon tho hny rooda which many forma all dog fonnal or orro daly Iboy uro woode, vlthoat doubt Thelr Bowen uro vory al Tholr potels are short. Tho plants aro loufy How On tho ogo of Lother Burbank u bounty in them, and futuro To start hla aporimont ho nu able to got roods of a debay from Englaad which had « lerror bloupom, and grow on a larger plant. Ho ploood tho pallon from this Karopeun dabey on the places of tho arejo dary and be placed the potion of the mayo dely on the European bloom Ho thea scoarod woode of delry from Cormy und pod pallen from the town which grow from the rooda to crowd on the redlog of the row of the aroyo end tho Engllah dany The plant wbloh towalts from the croring of two di Hoot planta ballod. bybeld. The pollen from themsetros almost any had to be placed a ·128 LUTIN blowoms of other hybrids beforo very good realta rent obtainod. This applied to all of hk erperimenta While tbo Earopena dalile had larger blowoms than the Amerloun oxeye dalay they were not goeful to form and dkl not bare so many blooms on cach plast They were court and woody in appenaco. They had many largo let you on the lower talk whick Ur Bar bank tbought a dolriwont boonuse tbo lodra woro mort prominent than the forent. Tbo gongs to which theto narlons deialos belong to "ohryzanthemum Sctontits group plants which are similar to cach other into a goom then they mbullride the game into species tho spookes in furtbe divided into Tarlotten. Usually when the name of plant la giron in melentito language the goou tho spoolen, and the variety names are written in order Tho dalles with whilch Mr Burbank wu now working bed do writy of name. Tho arıyo daly of N England bes tho volentino Damo Chronontkenna lewoonthemum Tho dahy wbitch bo pot from England has the scientile damo Carpinanthemum marimum And the one he got from Cormany hu tho pamo Chrysanthonum lacustre First, « ctor was made betwen Chrysanthemum marinum and Chrysanthena lovcanikmum The peocha which rero thou produced grew into plants whleba boro Boven abowing a marked improvement over other khad They were larger in Riza Bat all of them had yellowhat tingo so fartber im proroment we attempted by croorlog tbla bybrid with the German dabay Okrywnthemian lacustre It required to or thu ran to mako there yurlow TOP and bring the flowers into bloom bat as a result Lotber Burbank bad a new species of dalilo v bomo blonroms were larger and more beautiful and wtro produced in greater abandadco than any others. Bat the Bowers still dH pot baro that crystal whito color which be so much desired Bo bo kept right on with ·tutto ha pardon, and be lod ber to tho hodo of larp or hybrid defilet and uted ber of be wow pleet Hth blou om biter than all the rest, to polnbod to the Ya, bo le bay and outstandingly duetto AT RALLY TOT ILALITID 129 is operforats, collecting wedo act year only from ho Thy best plants and from those which bo bored vold prodao i whito fovet oventually Helly bo decorerede fourth daky to Japan koom Choponlar sipponic The Important thing bout thu Bower wus that, whillo It ww very very mall pelab maro atrunały white Ibo flower wbloh came from tho xods prodaced by fint oroming with the Japancro delay were deappoint- 8. Bat the best owon, Ir Burbank av og tho Bouwndr of borrona produod by this combtaatson of lalom, ono plant which had blomme which woro largo bd which most important of all, were whiter than ku ho rout. Th.com blowoude word growing anong thonnande long bedge of bybild dables, bet thoy stood out Dong tho thoomad of wbito bluomu w grongly u they vero * ou black Ho vundered if other peoplo boald sco that thboo ant. blomom poromo much whiter than the others, b bo led his work and all hb ratton conut a thos est the place where they wero. Bat none of thom cooli o ono blomon that looked white than the other "I flower to white," sold one man, "you ouat make any whiter The bloooms are all white, wo far w I can bo Thog uro al boutiful. You are wonderful be Barbank. You bem ersted lovely Rows. I tbbak ou ought to introduce overy one of there. Let the world enefit from what you han bort. There Dowborto che hat ADTODO conld o dorer lik there But when women are from Ben Yuncinco ru Lant which Ur Burbank bed ween for wo many der 1 tbo other bloom.

·130 LUTH BRANI The artist had a series of color taloon which cott ponded to Mr Burbank kr. Bho could noo what other Tbitors had not ren This delighted him and bo lett that lo mas ready to introduco the new plant. On two or three occasions he had viated the vlełnity of It Sbuta in Dorthern California. Ut Shusta mod beratiful mountain, perpottually coverod with mow "Ill namo tbo new dalay to honor of Lexutfal Shasta, bom to himself So be introduced tho new flower as the Bhasta daby Thriving in all parts of the United States it is today tho prio of many lower gardenor Tho hage graceful plants are proliflo bearert of poro white blommotu Vany blornom grov to bo w largo au four or fire Ineker in diameter Indcorl romso have been found that measured Krep Inches acron. Their rool multiply and the plants can bo easily dricked so that, in a short time great quantity of Shaxta dabhen may be obtalned by drilon of the roots of the original plant. When Mr Borbenk mold the Shrista dalay to a nurkety man for Introduction fast who did his other creationis be Ildn t get an wuruilly largo ram. But ho lind novet furn tt What Asr Brown the banket told him on tho day when they were returning from Marblehead after bo had cold his Durtaxt potato for $160 )Ir Brown had talked of growlog new Nante to worro mankind mox Lather Barbant almy docerely worked for tho Lepeat of mankind rather than for dollar and crate It may well Lo that the Slasa daley brought him moro atleaction than any other plant be created because it pro pleururo to to many people ·18. MAGIC GOES AROUND THE WORLD By starting with restety of subarb whleb bo ared from Now Zealand and which wu almost worthl.com no, Hr Burbank nu able to produco . Dow kind of want which vu later grows in tho gurday of tho klog Itlay the Klog of Pagland and the Emporor of Japan. the coal monder that it appealed to thoro royal pornon boondo it muso much largo, o mueb moto bountiful color and so much moro dolclore than my rabarb hown that no ono wbouw It ww able to reda it. I wa Introdaoud with the name Crimson Tisler huberb. Tbo Omeon nungguated by tbo red 10 tho namo Winter w portal bocrom the rango now plant continued to produco large stall In yundanoo through the winter in mld climaton. When the rhubarb grov in Nov Zealand us 40 sloost bekende merloty with stalk po bilogor around than lead all It prodaood ita crop during Docomber and Janne y which to pummer montba in the Houthorn homol. horo. Eran though the mou ero retornod to Oult mia, it contanod to prodao doring Dooomber and query Alo tko Calfornia spring sumulatod ita growth, copa more hurrated both pummer und water The Now Zoulind plot nu oood with some of the tor vurtation of thaburb whleb ar Burbank had mod, er vortbag bibe outomasy magle with thousand of bulling, ho finally relosted the largest and bart und trodaood It wtho Cho Tina Rhubarb The dow roky mu proliflo end ti brought oh good poloos Itog Norombor Doormbee und January boa ahlppod castorn markets that many proven to Cavfoma pod u machu $1200 . your per lo by whipping lite The Chun Winter Rhubarb oun bo oudly prop tod, for the roots moltiply rag fort end, who thoy ·133 LUTH BURDAN out into all portion, ech portion I reproduce prin plank Boton subgrow to be an inch or as intoh and 1 bal In diabeter ud four feet long, locoding the lar Thule variety annot bo from to the East becaure B anny writtutand the Word winter Das it can be gron in loro part of California and much it it be the normy shipping quality It can be sold in the enter markota. The Emperor of Japan and tho Kbog of Italy rooninen roota diroot" from Mr Aurlant Thomo era planted in th royal gardens and they multipllod so fort there that they wu dot only ough to supply the royal famillo be maob Da Robert Holmes a member of the Royal Horticulton Bociety in London, uscared more of it to ako to him om Framleow and promoted roots to the kids of Pogtood in It was grown to the royal pendons for hoe Some of the mouw variety w mot back to Now Zen iarxl, ita olginal boms, and pronul to bo adopoul to t6m ellmat IL RLD wu tbm erat rabart which would bo mat cootally town on the Cape of God Flope at tbo south To up of Africa Thor lt gaird darbation in colla climate throughout the rorlik The ristrul rustity of Now Irland roubarb wa reuredthrough D Hai & boa of Auckland Now Leuland The first to obuproents were lors brorex thn plant would tot hire foring to long journey Toweror th thint ahipment arrived afely in California and in it wrt Aboutbol . doton of the more roots of the most worth les food plant Nr Burbank In por those without coming and to Traditri sumber in about ono beodred Thoy pro dereil mer! by great quantitks sety Joured that it un planted and tho modlings oordolly stodled Chora were then made with other Wods of rhabarb cod artoo Shing oled to the tracta ·word OOD AROUND THI WORLD 133 A bod in vbloh some of these woodling vero growing þpoured ntbor nered, boonuse some of the planta were prywnal and como wand very large. However ho wanted mothing uw be bad to huyo . wide variety from Hch to sloot. After the Onnon Tinter varlatywu wel destulbuted, kopt on making other hybrida and avontually had two Lord to introdoog, ono known a tho Burbank rant and bo other known a tho Vuo Grau Chwson 19mber hubarb Both were of large dle und wors rury vigorous todooor Thoy both farnished crops the your wound in Challbrio. Hovover the quality of the stallo w so good bat, !f thoy had produced only during the rammer pour bn, thoy all rould have been worthy natation Tho o uro nover tough or stringy and they bero a plorant bate when made into moco ar pien. Tbo crimson oolo omaton after tho rhubarb lo ooo kod and that, of doorro, kde bo ta pelatability Whoa the roots are divided, to thrifty now plant hus saldo ready to be hervontod thia talvo months 1r Burbank oootinued to work with the rhubarb bopho to got a hardy vuroty that could be grown in the orthern motion. Eroo hardy naraty would not pro Jaco winter and rummer bat bo bo pod to got do that pould have tho other deainblo quellthor of tho Dew Idad. Loch variety ru not prodaood, but the rhabarb or perimento Torded good Illustration of the world-wido popo of Nr Batanli mul than in finding strungo plante vor arong and then wending Dow ribother to orary pontipont. Although he remained to Bente Rome, hla uno bad plant guotta from overy boantry and be plent Lootorla tharuled around the globe. It sbould bo emphaded that wous of the chief roan thy Hr Burbank wu bi to set to any ones poetod and ·13 LITTLESVIATK brought to other plants from widely sparkled parts of the earth. Ho continually rooi rod shipments of seede, helbe, od planta from all parts of tbe world It to certain that there Dovor mr to actes anywhere in the porld me that wo many different kinds of plants, or lo meny D planu rerulting from the croong of pollen, u CW Banta Rom and Sobertopol. Nere did the plant improves hero & Haltur following the year 16BA vho could recot atro all of tho plants growing on h le grounds there are haally more than millon plants growint on the tan LOTTO Boom of them won Tory Ballomo of them occuptod many quare foot of ground Bat ho had the knack of making wo of overy inch of roll and the minuto plant bad avod Its wefaloon it wu takon ont and the sound used for something elmo It might be correctly makl, thorofore that tho co ucres At Scbustopol and Santa Rom medo np. world laboratory for plant improvement TARDI BERRIES COSE FROV SIBERIA When sir Barbuok startol rork with respberson and hlackbetrica in 1878 he had barulpeu lomu A well u improved fruits. Ho decided to got some md rasy berries from the colibent place in the world --Biborla Toure ho beloral, roull belp mako Dew bush froita which would grow in any cold climato The plants from the far Kortb produced borries which were worth almost thing it be tru. The frult wu about tbo dre of per mat i dart red color and bad Laryn Krds. Furthermoro the tarot mas not pleasing but the plant could withstand cold vinters Sir Barbuok liked the wardince of tho items and the lurro rizo of the arts. Ho felt that there were herited chanciere while roukl be thermaltted to bybride, a he knew that some new rulotla migbt appear roer widtog were frorn.

·Xuan aor AROUND TH. WOULD 135 He rowed the Albertan berken with the California lovborry which wild and hardy truling blackberry ound in the foothills of the state. The berries uro orally produced in largo number, they are black, of good uzo od have a good flavor Tboy have not booomo populer · coltrstod varlotlo, bogaub of the fact that tho itam male flowers grow o ono bash and tho pletllato flowon TOT on unother For this reso part of the boaber in. pardon do not bear fruit for at minato foren produco poly pollen, and all the berries grow on the bushes which bour plato forreri. Ono Modety of the Californla dovborty walled Aogb mbaugh, hed boon ouluntad to pomo extent and it Tu the one whiloh Ir Burbank wolooted for crondng with to wild 8Iberian plant Ho had no dificulty in making tho combination of thoro wild #rungorn, for blackberries, repberrou, und dow barrios oun be cronood Indkooriminatoly Ho spooted to get from the bybridization planta which would be of to widact direnity of obarclor and his poot tona word rullpod. Noarly all of tho hybrids woro worthlon. Bomo of them did not bar vitality congh to ltro. Somo boro mell berita oooulomally hering only two or thro code in woh tralt Thors word for bowotor- three or four-which grow with froet vigor Odo of those hud frult larger then either of the parents. The frult looked somowhas like blackbery in form but T. dark rod ln colar \Vhon it w folly aturad It camo way from the ouro u the rupberry does when plokad. It m. hybrid with Wood perfect blend of the two wild parente, bat much bettor then etbor Kumod the Primu berry A mu really « rspberry Tbo Primu w food berry for bomo uno, but we not good enough for commercial growing Thb wu not the first respberry which alr introdaood. IA 1893 be bad roni forth ·130 LUTIR DURAT which we alled Swake. It u larger than other borrlo, nuo bright red color bad film fruits, and mu vory product.ro. The busha Inc dontally war N.OOH froo from thors yot u thoro word for Mr Barbuk dki pot all th. thornku rupberry Soodling from tho Suruba race town and oo Latroduood under tho mum. Didelor Thla ono w to mulablo for itu babit of Tolding barrion of mormou nito. To borrie word too poft for shipping, borover motho Dictator nu introduced for bomo Do Only A littlo later other rupberry ru Introduood undo the namo Bugar It boro Its fralts in Ooto ber u tho Dicolor del Thls vus quito sa urny of ropparkablo berdea Tho Pratospberry not afrald of tho cold The Burea-fupberry without Irritating thomu. Tbo Dictator-rupberry of opormou no. Tho Sugar-nupborry for late fall um Ono year fr Burbank tryclod lo Alberta, Canada with the purpoeo of stodylog the natural hybride of wik Lerrlen. Ho found many of them and ooncladod that war la continually, making ao peoke of bestiar by ning tho pollon, Ho made em lar oberrations amoy Irawberrien blvoborries, and Carlorn la llac. Thla mnoooragod him to crom the dowberry with many wrieties of repborries and blackberria. Among tho hybride thus produced thero Tu ono oven more remark blo than tho Prior berry Originally pumed the nuwbold it wu later named by tho modstan to whom it u rold, Plexomenol berry Thla berry phenomenon realted from axperimentato which both the red cod yellow respberries voro comberol with tho dovberry the first generation of bybridy ylelded nothing of importance, muual. In the wooood factation boter su obe plest hleb rus botter than any Hr Burbank had ofor Koen. Soto of tho berria Vers un fach eod. half long iad an taob In dameter ·40 coda boUT DE VOULD 137 * vero a dark, Heh calmson color and they combined bo qualities of the rupberry uod blackberry in derur lon, uain, nu blend of the charactertutlas of the o perante The Pheromodel bary be somewhat dmlar to a frolt and the Loganberry which mea natural hybrid created Bators and discovered by Judge J I Logan ol Benta Ares, Califorala Tho Picostal berry borover 1 of Letter quality and oolor and more productivo han tho Loganboy In ten years after its introdation, tho Phenomenal try wu . popular ruloty among the power of the Paolio Cond. "It proved to boom moral varloty for 1 could be shippod to distant marketa Other bash frulta introdnood by Jfr Borbenk ero The Great Ammon raspberry the Himalayo burry tho looburg blackborry and the Japanese Golden Bayberry The brush fruita porod to be good material for the plant laboratory and, u thar jamoa tadionto, they were Dumopolitans ropromoting trains from many landa Lothar Burbank parlenc with all kinda planta hoved him that foredgo kinds en very onefnd in bybel Hang operiments Looking they bring chanzoteration whloh bavo been dorolopod woder conditions quite dio rent from thome to Amerim Forthortoro when planus of widely repented wootlons aro eromrod them to any groot radation, with many morphan, to the topeng A. puront stock those planta from the lar oumens of the werth Pero poro Dowful to bringing about dow and wreful cbar acters than loonlly grown plantı. So bo muloomod plent immigrant of European Adatto and Afrlaun odigin he portod vith plome from Frunot pouchou from Chinn gledloli from Booth After the Whasta daldea had an opstry part Now Endead pert Raglab pert Gorman and part Japanese, bis dahlu amo from Halo od to help to hla rock with rouca, bo obtained some very interesting Turteties from Onla.

·138 LUTHER PUDnt importing of plants from forslgn countries to fascinated blon that be enjoyed growing them rogurdlow of whether bo medo oso of them or not. Brod today thorou. dumber of strango plants growing on his groueda while ato not likely to be found anywhere else to the United Buata. From 1885 on ho continued to Tungo with the Koing to foreign countria to wood him what bo wanted. Jl. could thou doroto all of his timo to work, and not opcomo ung of it in travel and exploration PLUS COJIE PROX TURBE CONTINENTS At tho tlme Lather Borbank begro ble work of weekday now kuxle of plems, whlok mu la 1985 Amorlan had very fow good variother Wo wore clopondlog quito largely apon tho wild plads vhloh grow bort. Bat Lir Borbank bollored that it would be very muluablo to pot pluma from otber countries and combine the chartotorlatias which they might here with thoro f tho plams growhos in America ile had mad that plom with and beab wu to bo found in the Province of Satan. In oatbeto Japan Aooon! ngly be arranged nith loano Banting an Eagah bull dealer who operatori in lokohamm, Japan to collcot number of plum sodling The int sblpment of plod sodling from Hr Bant log stire la ist in my poor condition. dr Barbeak therefore arged Il Bunting to wond other kodland on Decomber 20 188.5 ho recoined tvevo plom treet from tbo Batoma pmrinco bich bad Lerd prodroed by Vataro from the seeds of rud trees. Such ta analed "Battrel hybride. no man bad crowned the pollom to prodoco them they wero Naturo s on creations Of courto ir Barbuak di dot know whether thetr fratta woald bo of way rule or not. But if they were pot to thought that they might sorto as good perrat rock to bo tu lo toxo vith platus from other countries lle bad larger phun trert gtoring oo blo Sebastopol Grm od henfted stort plecae Irom the wedlog on the older ·Luar JOD AROUND THI WORLD 139 Leo to orda to get the fruit rooster Add mbon be lookod the fralt of the twelto plum redlop ho rus utoabbed back to there were so many plums in this collection whloh Proured to bo much botter than those grown in tho Valted States Tbo ant of the poodling which prored good enough to bo tntroduced boro fruit the poor after it u grafted. The frult you very largo, heartshaped red with white bloom, and very good i fleror Vr Burbank chowed it to all of the pooplo who viatod hla place during tho nost two or throo ya Theer hdton neaded Den from tho Valted States Department of Agriculture, and one of them, Prafomor H. E Van Domeo arrod Ulr Burbanks to Intro duce this now plum. With this moouragement, b intro doctd it in 1880 u the Burbank pun. Laro izo and its att notivo color and tanto mado 11 popralar at once. In a for you, u many w 125 ou londa of zo Botant plum mers whipped to mestom markota from all fornla Tol plum has provod to be of tromondonu vulne in more places to the world than any other verhoty Tho trea is able to adapt Imoll to moro different kods of woother and roll conditions than others bevo been ble to do. Is throw through cold water when tho tom peraturo goes u low u 30 degree below zoro It 40 murrtrou the botter conditions esporlenocd in Booth Анс One of the other troln roodlingt Brnt born it fruit in 1897 It ww. płup with red akin and Jork purpled my! flowh, and it uvorugod about two loches in diretor the poodling ouro trom the province of Bolema, Japan Il Burbank named it tho Salone. It beolmo popular in Nouthern California and many of the estern Call state, u wel w in the soothom bembpbero Horror It prorel to bo low adaptable to a wido parlety of elmasta than the Berdant płum. It could not be prown Tery Tuccarlar for ample, in the older placer Yhile ir Burbank Introdocod. few klods of

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LUTHER DURRAIT
whiloh vero erofal only where they word grown bla moto
effort was to protklo borttoultarists with rusletion which
could be shipped long distwom Bo beloved that Cart
Cordia nu detted to produce frolt which could be ablp
pod to New York placentally
Bo it was recommary to study murkot domuodt; to rady
shipping conditions to ozbibit hin frult to grower, at
enthate, and government ofilesh, and to loora in opery
way pomblo all that u noory to koow in orilor 10
fodgo the probablo popularity and wofalnous of the now
reriet.
It would be almost truthful to uy that it was alr
Barbankı rork which started tho com berola! shipplog
of plama. Prothomly the plum had been colto largely a
home frult * facially which had no plum trece may
went without plom. But Us Berbank. Fork dovolopod
nrlatla hloh voro rach good ahlpres that hundreds of
cartonda ID kon being carried tirely Atton this coun
try making the thrrotbommand milo foartoy from out
to e a mere fully u bo binol had onco made it
meut to wert.
About three yaan alter the introdeetion of sorral of
best Alarm salpping plans a third of all the plans whipped
Californle were bbs now raretit At Santa Rosa and
Sebastopol piam immigrant from three conUneat, had
beep necessfully Americanlial and many of thoro word
on the way to internationel mocou

·9 THE BEES AND THE HUMINGBIRDS HELPED Lather Barbunk bedo to of the fortilizing babits of both the book cod hummingbirda In hl gladioll aspert peota, bo planted the tro parents to be crowned in adjoin beron, knowing that the boas and hummlagblada wonki bo Moly to go from one tor to the other add thus arry the pollen in the way be desired it. Tho hummingbirde were particularly food of the Gladioll, uod defeat deal of the polinizlog for him. It mado rory little difered on which blomom fornlahort tbo pollen booLoo ater I, Vr Barbank ru not trylog to dlaclowe Naturo i rolu bo was trying to prodoco no flower. And by melding te of the hommingbirds and the bound be produced Dot Bowen mach more rapidly Lo the production of the world oarllest oberry Luthor Bobank again en Meted tho aid of the baca in canylın tho pollen. I be had undertaken to aunty tho pollon from one partut berry troo to apother he would havo had to content himmell with oaly low roods cech year Bat by getting the boor to do the work for blm, bo w ablo to pot thomands of woode from 0.0 troo which roprovatod row between that truo uod another relootod Tarloty In order to get the boor to crow-polinize two retea bo broko off brunebes from ono tro, after it wu 1o foli bloom, and placed them upon the brunotos of the other When boos ons working on cooklad of flore they do pot what other typen Whoo tboy so taktog tho bootar of the oborry blotton, tboy That no other fruit troo Coor quently how that the boot would take the pollen from the broken breach and place it on the path of the do wore in the troo oo vhloh tho much vu plnood. In this ny bo got the book to make them and he almayı do a thoroogte Job.

·142 LUTE IRDAT Too peront cherrlos und in this rosy word op larly known the Early Purple Guigao and the black Tartarian as time root on Hr Borbenk mourol chorria from Rowl from Franco, and from the outern Unitat Platon, Pullon from the foreiga yurtothe mos thunderte! totho bybolda ar bentuly poor enroly nox chetrlos woro produced wbloh voro botter than any of tho purenta. Bovoral of them bore their fruits rory much arlo bat tho carly one more Inferior in other reporta und early bearing abono vu not onough to justity the wbootloss of the bow hodielu! florroror there arly boorlog kinds ruro wed u per onte for further crowing and montually with tho all of the beer ho doveloped tho Burbant cherry It ripened roteral week carlier than any other fruis ft wulante la elmo etish lire la color rory lo favor And best of all it withatood abipment across the continont. The trees to hardy bud abandant folla co to protect to fralt from the top and it mu polllo bourer Befoto Introduce the Burbant cherry to the coneral oblio in 1011 Ir Durbank wat ample shlpmonte to caster stato 19 1003 . ten-pound box wid at pablo tion for $1600 Later on an enthro arload ms nokl $750 per ten-pound bor la 1009 * ten-pottui bor av sold in Philadelphia for $31 or $3 10 pound 1 In hila 1011 catalog ontlthart Toatleth Contary Fruitt Hr Burbank doucribed tho Bxrlant cherry u follow Too earliest of all largo cberries, tho largest of all cart's cherries and pot mly the best of all marly cherrhea, wat onsorpased by way cherry of 193 n. The treet are model in fort vigor and derer filing frodantivo ness. The follage, which is of wool size, bo placed that the fralt i fully protected from birde iod from chic king card by late spring raina." The Bact grow and tho Ilowy fftart betrie oro Introduced later and may not bo purchased from a TT ·TH. TIPS AND TIL DIOKOMIDS ITALIED 143 me bat the Butak ru the one which brought moro per pound than a peld for the boat apopairo andy Why mu to high prioo poldt In the fint place thoro were only fav anailable in tho koond placo tho ohor ries and very curly la tho KOLOR. Thus, the dealer knew thero wall bo no compoultron for forenl voola Further more, tho oborrlos Foro wo largo and bountiful in color and had moh a delicious flavor that bo mor ho roald hato do diocalty in inding rotall bay who would puy * Wgh prioo. This omphasizna tho importanco of Sir Burbank's idon that an extra carty oborry would hero . botter domand than other, wd illustrates his grasp of markot domends to a far-away cty As proof of the shipping ability bo rent box of tho Burbank ohades to Now York ud had it shippod back to Oullifornia. When I erivod «ftor making tho round trip to frult wu i to perfoot oondition. None of tho oborrios nu too soft Nooo of them wus damaged to my way Thor ouroful attention to prodactlom all tho way from pollon trudlar to packaging peaent and malo of tho fralt in duortent martora, distinganhod [r Burbank'. work from that of the botanisl nonnod omly with trao mg plant podigreon. Intorstod personu troquontly ut "Who arded on Ir Burbank'ı wort after his death t* Tbo andere that, u yot, Doono has attempted to carry on tho work in whlah Ir Barbeak wu ko raccontal and for moyoral very good TourD. In the first place, Yr Burbank wu working on many orporimonta at the timo of his death that it would han bea almost imposablo for anyone to knot what he had in mind in ouch cun. Yben i uked him on any hero at least three thorend." Thero Tu no other person et koow all that bo mu striving IT ·16 LOTEN DIR how to dig plant, take and boo but they had no kom whateror of the nalno of the plants with wlod they were worldng No one helped with his plaat-pollanting or copt the boo and bommingbirch Soto reposibility for planning, alooting and making deciskums wu hlu. There was no kind of labor on hie ploco in which be did not himself more Ho giro Tory for order that vero not Locom panied by a dergonetration of bow to do tho worto aod bo ooold do a better fob than mny of his work den. Bat ho did not or poot overyono to bo funt licoba way, for be know that other people han different expert ence and durant thoughts. Como los of ba tatenso interest in his work and of the ability to bendito moon muy bo gutood from two moldmata Among tho milloma of planta roproconting there thouand aperiments at Bents Rou, Mr Barbadk onco had har plant of Srbe hard. One morblogt he came into my otho more excited than I had stor ren him "Did you ont down that orbe card of wine bo demanded Als Barbook I would never out plant of any kind your garden I agred hit. I bato not hokeil er or fruit antern yon total me to Cortainly I did not tot dom fgr Bole chords Tell, hould notreboda H Berty I woull nther hy may right arto cat of thun to low opo of the planta with whic! I am rorking That Bohund man bo romalt of many years of work. Bat I kone you didn t do Forgin mo for nocusing you. It ta mach' . low that I fast oouldn't retra myrell Me al roro walking through his greoabio ono day and there roms leilen abort name mu Joo Joo vu poumoga ber ſoll of med pode Tbo pronto be tried for thrribing the weed vu to place the pods in . bag and then pound the bar with stick ·BY KID AID THE HUNGAR. HUTID 148 gott og along with ble fob rory fast. Al wo approachod him ltr Burbank ald, *Pound om . tho dor! Joo Pound om Ho the devil 1 Joo moved faster When to got outudo vhoto Joo coalin t bour , Mr Burbank mid "Thath the coly Languago Joo understande" Another difference betwor Barbank upd tho orthodox rexurdhon wu hle reful to spoolaire Somo plant aspats baro specialked on apples, other on dahlia, but ur Burbank doya Ilmited ha lateret to 200 feld. Ho always worked with dozens of kinda of planta. No one who u yot, has had tho broud towpolot bloh ou blad bim to carry on many abroaltendo projects whilo koophag all the cente dotalls in malad. It has not u all ulirely that someone rozollmo in the Paturo may work on a brondoulou Lather Burbank uld. Thero bono roudon all why it should not bo dong, no reason why w good rorults should not be apmotod. Srusooo l bowote up to now has worked on a much ولم ممالعm Although no onortontbu or leymun" ble to ity on tho work in whlob 1r Burbank oroolod, it la Rooking to roadbo that there are thousands throughout be world who havo bomo Influenced by hla oooom und do te of bla pabulabad recorda Portap if maddad porother the pleat creation of all of thoro pooplo, bald truthfaly uy that Mr Burbank's rock being uriod on not by ono individual, but by a large group of turo enthulut. Certainly his experience he had a beneficial offoet apoo • world not only beason of wat ho gave the world in pleat creation but boonuse of what bo tenght others po Dow ballon that it our destiny to borp Naturo prove the fruitfulness of the pleadot Eren attot be my world-famon mun, Lather Bur-

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LUTIN BUBUTI
tro ohildrm of Dearby robool on bla birthday "You go
la my place be trged me I fustant think what to
HAY But you tell the bort agd glit I loro thor. Teb
thim that I kpor they will stor foto good mood
omen. Toll thom this ua besat[ful world fall of wooden
Tell them to look for interesting things and they'll never
haro dull moment in thelt uver Toll them to learn how
touto vhot tboy find Tell them to baso confidheaco and
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