LUTHER BURBANK 



all cultivated plants, and the one that has received 

 most attention from horticulturists of all classes, 

 professional and amateur alike. 



In attempting to introduce a new rose, then, 

 the plant developer is coming in competition with 

 a vast number of workers, and the product with 

 which he operates is to be measured against an 

 almost bewildering number of similar products 

 that have attained a high degree of improvement. 

 So, as I said, the plant developer may sometimes 

 regard with greater satisfaction such an accom- 

 plishment as this, than a more spectacular achieve- 

 ment in plant development in a line where there 

 is no competition. 



How THE BURBANK WAS PRODUCED 



The origin of the Burbank rose suggests in a 

 way the origin of that very different plant devel- 

 opment, the Burbank potato. 



I was not personally responsible for either 

 name, and the analogy between the manner of 

 production of the rose and the potato was doubt- 

 less not at all in the mind of the dealer who chris- 

 tened the new flower. Still, as I have just inti- 

 mated, there is a certain added propriety in the 

 use of my name in connection with this particular 

 rose as against a good many other roses that I have 

 developed, because of the fact that the manner of 

 its production suggested that of the production of 



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