4 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



PAGE 



The Wild Nutmeg 104 



Olive Teees ........ 116 



The California Chinquapin as an 



Ornamental Tree 130 



The Variegated Box Elder . . . 138 



An Acacia Tree in Bloom . . . 144 



A Young Sequoia Gigantea . . . 152 



The Largest Tree in the World . 158 



Yellow Pine 162 



The Judas Tree or Red-Bud . . . 166 



The Hybrid Elm 170 



Olive Ross Burbank, Luther Bur- 

 bank's Mother 184 



Luther Burbank's Birthplace . . 202 



The Old Homestead as It Now Appears 212 



Mrs. Luther Burbank 224 



Luther Burbank at the Age of 



Twenty-Five . 246 



My First Advertisement .... 252 



View in the Santa Rosa Gardens . 258 



Midsummer's View 266 



