NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



Burbank, the great plant -breeder. ^ potato 



which he developed from this seed-ball has 



Tot only disproved the dictum of those who 



sa?d a potato famine was at hand because of 



the steady deterioration of the world's stock, 



It Thai added to the wealth of this n^on 



alone upwards of twenty muhons of dollars 



The creator of the new potato sold it to a local 



ft ring after this that he suffered 

 partial sunstroke in the broiling heat of a 

 j u l y day and, seeking a climate : where he 

 light te able to live an outdoor life without 

 5 of a return attack, and where he might 

 hope some day to put in effect some of he 

 theories of the development of plant hfe 

 already stirring in his bram, *e started for 

 California, with a slender purse and ten of Ins 

 new potatoes. He reached California in IW, 

 and went north from San Francisco some fifty 

 m il es to an unimproved valley lying between 

 two spurs of the Coast Range Mountains, 

 today a rich fruit and farming country. 



. He was then a little past twenty-one, slen- 

 der, not over-strong, and yet possessed of 

 much vitality and endurance. These latter he 



