174 LUTHER BURBANK 



When this grafted tree was only fifteen years 

 old it was two and a half feet in diameter. Its 

 hybrid character is obvious to all botanists who 

 have examined it and as the original giant Lan- 

 caster elm has since been destroyed by a passing 

 hurricane, I now have the only representative of 

 it still living. 



I have not experimented further with the elm 

 in this direction; but the grafted tree that thus 

 reproduced the personality of the giant elm in 

 the shadows of which I passed my boyhood — a 

 souvenir that links the home of my mature years 

 with the home of my ancestors — is a source of 

 perpetual pleasure. 



