NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



of various kinds, with many thousands of 

 other fruits, flowers and vegetables. 



The grafting done at Sebastopol, like all the 

 work carried on there, is on a large scale. In a 

 single grafting season, which comprises about 

 ninety working days, more than a hundred 

 thousand grafts will be set, covering a wide 

 variety of experiments going forward at the 

 same time with many different kinds of fruits. 

 From these grafts will grow in a single season 

 material for nearly ten million additional 

 grafts. Some years since, a company was 

 formed in California whose entire business was 

 the making of grafts from one of Mr. Bur- 

 bank's choicest plums, selling the grafts to 

 nurserymen and fruit-growers all over the 

 world. 



At various points throughout the grafting 

 section of the grounds young men may be 

 seen perched on the tops of ladders in the 

 midst of the branches of the trees upon which 

 the grafts are set. In this, as in the case of 

 flowers and vegetables, Mr. Burbank stands 

 ready with suggestions for those who wish to 

 take up this branch of the work. 



From the young trees which have been 



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