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twenty-five to forty thousand pounds per 

 acre. 



Pie plant par excellence in America has 

 been rhubarb. Burbank has created a Giant 

 Perpetual rhubarb which yields enormous juicy 

 stalks in winter as well as in summer, except in 

 the frozen soil of the north. Elsewhere it has 

 become so profitable that it has become known 

 as "the mortgage lifter." Another vegetable 

 the commercial value of which has been im- 

 mensely improved at Santa Rosa is the French 

 (or globe) artichoke. It has been made much 

 larger, more succulent, and richer in flavor. 

 The French artichoke, with its delicious fond, 

 is among salads what terrapin is among meats. 

 I am eagerly looking for a gardener who wants 

 to get rich by flooding Eastern markets with 

 Burbank giant artichokes, driving out the small, 

 dry, insipid things we have to put up with now. 

 And surely there is "big money" coming to 

 those wise enough to grow Burbank's Ele- 

 phant garlic and Giant chives, which are from 

 ten to fifteen times as large as the common 

 chives and garlic. 



"No other man has given to horticulture so 

 many valuable things as has Luther Burbank," 

 says Prof. E. J. Wickson, dean of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture of the University of Cali- 

 fornia, corroborating the words of Pres. David 

 Starr Jordan of the Leland Stanford University : 

 "Luther Burbank is the greatest originator of 



