How THE PLUM FOLLOWED 

 THE POTATO 



LUTHER BURBANK'S FIRST WORK IN CALIFORNIA 



WHAT you need is a complete rest and a 

 change of climate. Go to California 

 for the winter. 



This, or something like this, I am told, is a very 

 common prescription of the New York specialist, 

 or for that matter, of physicians everywhere. 



The value of rest is almost axiomatic, and the 

 benefit to be derived from a change of climate is 

 matter of familiar observation to layman and 

 physician alike. 



Now I have more than once called attention 

 to the similarity between human beings and plants 

 as to a good many of their hereditary propensities 

 and environmental responses. And the present 

 case furnishes another illustration in point. 



Rest and change of climate are no less bene- 

 ficial to the plant than to the human patient. 



And as new surroundings arouse the mind and 



[VOLUME V CHAPTER I] 



