ON EARLY YEARS IN SANTA ROSA 



energies were to be devoted to the work of plant 

 development the work that had been projected, 

 and at which a beginning had been made back 

 in Massachusetts, and the hope of continuing 

 which had been the incentive to persistent efforts 

 during the period of stress and privation. 



An inventory of my belong- 

 ings on my arrival in California 

 would have shown very little 

 excepting clothing, books, gar- 

 den seeds and ten Burbank 

 potatoes that Mr. Gregory had 

 allowed me to keep when he 

 purchased that vegetable. 



