COMMERCIAL ASPECTS OF THE WORK 



Many have begged the opportunity of going 

 into partnership with him on a very large 

 scale, offering to provide all the money neces- 

 sary. Eager requests for the plants that he 

 has to sell come from every country, and he 

 had the making at Santa Rosa of the greatest 

 and most profitable nursery business in the 

 world. Mr. Burbank, however, is not out 

 for money. Money to him is only a means 

 to an end — the blessing of mankind by as 

 wide a distribution as possible of flowers more 

 beautiful and fruits of higher grade than 

 ever before existed. 



" When Mr. Burbank introduced his won- 

 derful sugar prune four years ago, I secured 

 a hundred feet of grafting wood from him, 

 and produced four thousand nursery trees in 

 a single year. In the succeeding year I had 

 over fifty thousand trees for sale — by far the 

 largest stock of that variety then in existence. 

 I had difficulty in disposing of the trees, 

 because they were not then known to be a 

 commercial success, and California growers 

 would not plant out large quantities until 

 they knew the public would buy the fruit. 

 Mr. Burbank, as I knew, had sold out his 



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