LUTHER BURBANK 
help us in the very practical, useful work of 
coaxing from Nature new forms of plant life— 
better forms than, uncoaxed, she would give us— 
plants which because of their greater productivity 
will help us lower our constantly increasing cost 
of living—plants which will yield us entirely 
new substances to be used in manufactures— 
plants which will grow on what now are waste 
Jlands—plants which, by their better fruit, or their 
increased beauty, or their doubled yield, or their 
improved quality, will add to our individual 
pleasures and profits, and to the pleasures and 
profits of the whole world. 
[END OF VOLUME I] 
—In order to work forward 
a_ little, we must work 
backward ages and ages. 
