A DAY WITH MR. BURBANK 



eight miles distant. Here he devotes the 

 entire day to overlooking the larger work of 

 the main proving ground. More men are 

 employed here than at Santa Rosa, as the 

 work is more extensive. Great difficulty is 

 experienced in -getting men who can adapt 

 themselves to the work. The day spent at 

 Sebastopol is particularly hard, for the work of 

 the week preceding must all be inspected and 

 plans laid down for the following week. Here 

 there must be constant care exercised that no 

 mistakes be made, for mistakes here, where 

 the tests have so far advanced that actual 

 results are being reached, are fatal indeed. 

 Hundreds of thousands of fruit trees of all 

 kinds needing inspection; work upon berries, 

 grapes, ornamental shrubs of many kinds ; 

 extensive tests in flowers, on a scale larger 

 than could be carried out at Santa Rosa; 

 experiments in fast-growing trees, tests of 

 plants which have been recommended from all 

 parts of the world as suitable for further 

 development or for combination with other 

 plants, — these are some of the factors that 

 unite to make the days spent at Sebastopol 

 wearing to the very last degree. In so far as 



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