NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



intelligent application of the forces of Nature 

 which are always awaiting our commands. 

 The vast possibilities of plant - breeding can 

 hardly be estimated. They are not alone for 

 one year or for our own time or race, but 

 are beneficent legacies for every man, woman 

 and child who shall ever inhabit the earth." 



Much of the preliminary work in Mr. 

 Burbank's plant - breeding is carried on at 

 Santa Rosa, where his home is located. He 

 lives here in a small, old-fashioned, two -story 

 frame house, with an immaculate front yard 

 and four acres of testing -grounds to the rear. 

 Near the dwelling is a small greenhouse where 

 certain tests are all the time under way, 

 particularly those in which the plants require 

 forcing in order to hasten the work. In the 

 rear of the greenhouse stands his packing- 

 house, the upper portion being given up to 

 storage. Here are thousands of paper sacks 

 and boxes containing all manner of seeds, 

 roots and bulbs, many of them in the midst 

 of tests, many of them finished products 

 priceless in value. 



The open ground in the rear of the house 

 and barn is divided off into beds of different 



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