Volume XII By Chapters 



Foreword .................................................. Page 3 



I Luther Burbank His Boyhood on a 

 Massachusetts Farm 



The Conception of an Idea and the Birth - 



of a Great Ambition .................................. 7 



II Luther Burbank The Early Years 

 in Santa Rosa 



The Period of Bitter ,, 



Struggle ............................................. 61 



HF Luther Burbank His Patience 

 Rewarded 



The Period of Great 

 Achievement 



IV Luther Burbank The Sum of His 

 Work With Plant Life 



What It Has Meant to Science ... 



and Agriculture ...................................... J.OD 



y Luther Burbank The Bearing of 

 His Work on Human Life 



On Improving the Human orto 



Plant ................................................ 206 



VT The Luther Burbank 

 Society 



What It Has Done and What - , - 



It Proposes .......................................... 247 



List of Direct Color Photograph 



Prints in Volume XII .................................... 289 



Subject Index to 



Volumes I-XII... .. 293 



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