LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Gathering Poppies (color) . . . Frontispiece 



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A Cluster of Burbank Plums 8 



A Group of Stoneless Plums 16 



A Fruit-bearing Slab of Spineless Cactus . . 24 

 Mr. Burbank Inspecting a Choice Variety of Spine- 

 less Cactus . 32 



A Field of Spineless Cactus at Santa Kosa . . 40 

 Spineless Cactus in Fruit . . . . .48 

 Boxes of Seedlings in Mr. Burbank 's Conservatory 56 

 Mr. Burbank Inspecting Cross-bred Tomato Seed- 

 lings . . . 64 



The Culture of Seedlings at Santa Rosa . . ;: 72 



A Cleft Graft (color) .80 



Cultivating the Fruit Orchards .... 88 



The Process of Grafting Completed .... 96 



A Brand-new Burbank Fruit the Plumcot (color) 104 



Mr. Burbank 's Phenomenal Berry .... 112 



Mr. Burbank 's White Blackberry (color) . . 120 



The Burbank Thornless Blackberry .... 128 



Inspecting Hybrid Blackberries . . . . 136 



Mr. Burbank 's Himalaya Blackberry . . . 144 



Mr. Burbank Inspecting Garlic Seedlings . . 152 

 The Camassia a Flowering Food Plant . .160 



Burbank 's Onions Grown for Seed (color) . . 168 



Mr. Burbank Planting Choice Seeds . . . 176 



A Burbank Hybrid Tigridia (color) V. . . 184 



A View of Mr. Burbank 's Garden at Sebastopol . 192 



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