48 LUTHER BURBANK 



Burbank spends much time at Gold Ridge. As each 

 fruit under test ripens, photographs are taken, and a com- 

 plete record is made and compared with that of previous 

 years. The size, shape, quality, flavor, color, general ap- 

 pearance, keeping quality, hardiness, amount of fruit to 

 the tree, and many other points are noted. Each year 

 many badges of honor are awarded, and each year some 

 new fruits and flowers are graduated. Many more are 

 kept for further education and training, while some must 

 be rejected. 



Some of the pupils when they enter the school have 

 only family names, but as they assume new forms of 

 beauty, or of usefulness, they receive an added name 

 a baptismal name, retaining, of course, their original 

 family name. And just as they have come from all parts 

 of the world, so in their new and improved forms they 

 go back to distant lands. So widely have these fruits 

 and flowers been distributed that it is true that, "The sun 

 never sets on the Burbank productions." 



