LUTHER BURBANK THE SUM OF 

 His WORK WITH PLANT LIFE 



WHAT IT HAS MEANT TO SCIENCE AND 

 AGRICULTURE 



WE have seen that the first edition of 

 New Creations in Fruits and Flowers 

 was published in June, 1893. Perhaps 

 we can best give an idea of the impression created 

 by the work by quoting a few paragraphs from 

 the introduction to the supplementary brochure 

 that was published the following year. Although 

 this .second work was issued independently, it 

 consisted in the main of a fuller account of some 

 of the plant developments referred to in the first 

 work, together with a large number of photo- 

 graphic illustrations. The two brochures, issued 

 respectively in 1893 and 1894, may be considered 

 as constituting the first official publication of the 

 main outlines of the work in plant development 

 which had begun in Massachusetts fully twenty- 

 five years earlier, and which had occupied Mr. 

 Burbank's attention unreservedly since 1885. 



[VOLUME XII CHAPTER IV] 



