LUTHER BURBANK 



The impression created by the first brochure is 

 referred to in the introduction to the supplement- 

 ary one in the following words: 



"Twelve months have passed since the first 

 number of New Creations in Fruits and Flowers 

 was sent out on its mission among dealers in trees 

 and plants, great care being taken to confine it to 

 the trade only; but before the few hundred first 

 published were all delivered, orders came pouring 

 in with each mail, like the falling of autumn 

 leaves, for more, more; and again more had to be 

 printed, and to this day the requests for New 

 Creations are increasing rapidly, instead of di- 

 minishing, as it had been hoped they would. 



"Probably no horticultural publication ever 

 created more profound surprise or received a more 

 hearty welcome. Almost every mail brings re- 

 quests for them from colleges, experiment stations, 

 libraries, students, and scientific societies in 

 Europe and America, and it has been translated 

 into other languages for foreign lands, even where 

 it would seem that scientific Horticulture was 

 hardly recognized; some asking for one, others 

 for two or three, or a dozen or two, or more. All 

 these requests have been cheerfully responded to, 

 but from this time on we shall be obliged to make 

 a charge. We cannot attend to the ever increas- 

 ing avalanche of letters which they occasion, a 



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