AND HIS PLANT SCHOOL 



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Children from a public school at Luther Burbank's home on 

 Burbank Day (Arbor Day in California). 



unmolested, rear their little ones in the quiet shade. A 

 narrow, winding footpath under the trees leads to the 

 Santa Rosa creek, whose banks are lined with trees and 

 vines. Among these every morning the wood thrush sings 

 with the same sweet, clear, bell-like tones that charmed 

 Burbank when a boy in his New England home. 



No less lovely than the plants surrounding the home 

 are the eager, happy faces of the school children as they 

 peep through the fence at the master and his flowers. That 



