Luther Bwrbank and the New Earth 105 



other potato to each plant, or an apple, plum, orange 

 or nut to each tree. 



"What would be the result? In five staples only in 

 the United States alone the inexhaustible forces of 

 Nature would produce annually without effort and with- 

 out cost, 5,200,000 extra bushels of corn, 15,000,000 

 extra bushels of wheat, 20,000,000 extra bushels of 

 oats, 1,500,000 extra bushels of barley, 21,000,000 

 extra bushels of potatoes. 



"But these vast possibilities are not alone for one 

 year, or for our own time or race, but are beneficent 

 legacies for every man, woman or child who shall ever 

 inhabit the earth. And who can estimate the elevating 

 and refining influences and moral value of flowers with 

 all their graceful forms and bewitching shades and com- 

 binations of colors, and exquisitely varied perfumes? 

 These silent influences are unconsciously felt even by 

 those who do not appreciate them consciously, and thus, 

 with better and still better fruits, nuts, grains, and 

 flowers will the earth be transformed, man's thoughts 

 turned from the base, destructive forces into the nobler 

 productive ones which will lift him to higher planes of 

 action toward that happy day when man shall offer his 

 brother man, not bullets and bayonets but richer 

 grains, better fruits, and fairer flowers." 



When I asked Mr. Burbank if he was training any 

 one to carry on his work, he replied : "Thousands." At 

 the moment, I did not understand, but later came com- 

 prehension, and with it, a better sense of his greatness. 

 This wonder-worker makes no concealment of his meth- 



