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eties of plants. For a number of years he successfully carried on a large 
nursery business, until he was in a position to devote all his time to his 
very interesting work of originating new varieties of plants. 
Personally Mr. Burbank is somewhat under size and of a quiet, gentle- 
manly appearance. He is highly esteemed by his neighbors as a man of 
good sound judgment. His home is in a little vine-clad white house, just 
a few blocks away from the center of the town of Santa Rosa, California. 
Stoneless Plums. At the top the small Stoneless French Damson—the parent of all the 
others. Much reduced. 
His experiment grounds were formerly located here, but owing to the soil 
being rather heavy and not especially adapted to his work he has moved 
his main experiment grounds to Sebastapol, five miles distant, where the 
land is rather sandy, but he still lives at Santa Rosa. He has, however, sey- 
eral smaller experiment farms. It was the great pleasure of the writer to 
spend parts of three days last summer with the subject of this sketch. 
Mr. Burbank’s catalogue of 1893 he entitled. ‘‘New Creations in Fruits 
and Flowers,” and it attracted much attention in this country and in Europe. 
Among the interesting novelties which he has sent out may be mentioned 
Sweet Baton, Burbank, Satsuma, Gold, and a dozen or more other very 
desirable plums, which are proving hardy and productive in many sections; 
