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Breeding; II, Grafting and Budding; III, 

 Fruit Improvement ; IV, Small Fruits; V, 

 Gardening; VI, Useful Plants; VII, Flowers; 

 VIII, Trees, Biography, Index. 



There are hundreds of useful colored pictures, 

 with strikingly illuminating comments. Ama- 

 teur plant improvers will eagerly read such 

 chapters as "The Rivalry of Plants to Please 

 Us," "Some Interesting Failures," "Letting the 

 Bees Do Their Work," "A Rich Field for Work 

 in the Textile Plants," "Useful Plants Which 

 Repay Experiment," "What to Work for in 

 Flowers," "Producing an Entirely New Color," 

 "Growing Trees for Lumber," "Inedible Fruits 

 Which May Be Transformed," "No Two Living 

 Things Exactly Alike," etc. 



The new edition also has a Preface by David 

 Starr Jordan, president of the Leland Stanford 

 University in California, in which he remarks 

 that "big men are usually of simple, direct sin- 

 cerity of character. These marks are found in 

 Burbank, sweet, straightforward, unspoiled as 

 a child, devoted to truth, never turning aside to 

 seek fame or money or other personal reward. 

 If his place be outside the great temple of 

 science, not many of the rest of us will be found 

 fit to enter." 



That last sentence is a subtle allusion to the 

 fact that even now Luther Burbank has enemies 

 — enemies who lose no chance to belittle and 

 sneer at him. I referred to this matter in the 



