INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Arbor Day at Burbank home, 39 

 A good little plum, 145 

 A tomato-shaped plumcot, 148 

 A trio of plumcots, 149 



Baby cactus in boxes and hotbeds, 125 



Baby plants, 29 



Burbank, Luther, frontispiece 



Burbank in his library, xii 



Burbank's new home, 38 



Burbank potato, 26 



Burbank rose, 91 



Burbank rose plant, 89 



Cactus fruit, 134 

 Cactus in training, 129 

 California grape, 120 

 Chestnut blossoms, 14 

 Childhood home, 3 

 Climax plum, 143 

 Conservatory, Burbank home, 30 

 Crimson winter rhubarb, 100 



Field of lilies, 71 



Four new peaches, facing page 174 

 Fragrant new lilies, 72 

 Fruiting spineless cactus, 139 



Giant amaryllis, 79 



Gladioli, 82 



Grafting fruit trees, 166 



Home, Santa Rosa, 28 



How new plants are made, 49 



Hybrid blackberry leaves, 106 



In the bulb room, 183 

 Jumbo, Japanese dog, 32 

 Little white ties, 63 

 Miss Eschscholtzia, 60 



Nashua River, 19 

 Native bramble, 103 



One of the "Little Beaches" that bears 



some, 154 

 One of the new seedling grapes, 121 



Pacific coast lily, 69 

 Poppy, 66 

 Pussy willows, 2 



Royal hybrid walnut tree, 177 



Santa Rosa rose, 90 



Santa Rosa walnut, 171 



Schoolhouse, 16 



Sebastopol grounds, 44 



Single dahlias, 94 



Spineless cactus, 135 



Spineless cactus slab, facing page 136 



Stoneless prunes, 140 



Strawberries, 112 



The Burbank cherry, 157 



The crimson Eschscholtzia, facing page 



62 



The ennobling of the Beach plum, 153 

 The fire poppy, facing page 68 

 The Gold Ridge apple, 164 

 The Gold Ridge apple, facing page 168 

 The lemon calla, facing page 76 

 The "O.K." mark, 47 

 The Rutland plumcot, facing page 150 

 The Shasta daisy, facing page 58 

 The wilding, 84 

 Thornless blackberries, 109 

 Two Shasta daisies, 56 

 Two-year-old chestnut with its second 



crop, 179 



Verbenas, 96 



White bleeding hearts, 51 



