TROPICAL LUXURIANCE 



Partly because of the richness of the 

 soil, and partly because of the climate, 

 but largely because of the choice 

 selected varieties of the plants them- 

 selves and the special attention that 

 they receive, the plants at Santa Rosa 

 grow in truly tropical luxuriance. Old 

 residents who remember the present 

 Burbank gardens when the spot they 

 now occupy was an arid, desertlike 

 area, must rub their eyes when they 

 view such a scene as that here depicted. 

 No one who witnessed this transforma- 

 tion is likely ever again to pronounce 

 any soil worthless. Regulate the con- 

 ditions of moisture and aeration prop- 

 erly, and almost any soil becomes 

 productive. 



