Mr. Burbank Selecting Cactus Seedlings 



Remember that most of these little fellows are covered 

 with spicules. Mr. Burbank's hands are also covered with 

 spicules; and his clothes are full of them. He asserts that the task 

 of dealing with these tiny citizens, in the effort to edu- 

 cate them into spinelessness, was the most 

 painful one in his experience. 



