PERSONALITY OF PLANTS 
faculties which enable him to attain really 
striking results. 
On his experimental farms near Santa Rosa, 
California, Luther Burbank has made many 
thousand distinct experiments involving a wide 
range of plant species. It is said that at times 
he has had as many as three thousand tests, call- 
ing for observations on a million plants and 
flowers, under way at once. Probably no similar 
area of the earth’s surface has grown such a 
variety of vegetable products or had such in- 
finite care lavished upon it. 
These are the practical aspects of the rela- 
tions of plants to men. On the esthetic and 
pleasurable side they are equally important. 
The love of plants and flowers is a universal 
sentiment slumbering in the most prosaic breast. 
Plants are a perpetual source of joy. They are 
friends which never change. In youth, they give 
zest to our outdoor pleasures. In age, they be- 
speak the happiness of days gone by. In death, 
they strew our last resting place with fragrance. 
At all times, they stand for purity, beauty and 
peace. 
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