THE LUTHER BURBANK SOCIETY 



had been put under definite way, the next diffi- 

 culty to be overcome was that of reproducing these 

 on paper, for use in the books, monographs and 

 other publications of The Society. 



At the time these experiments were under- 

 taken, nothing whatever of practical value had 

 been accomplished along this line, and the work 

 which The Society's experimenters did may be 

 judged by the color prints on paper in these 

 volumes. 



With the text complete and in the hands of the 

 members of The Society for corrections and sug- 

 gestions, and with the color illustrations prepared 

 and a means of reproducing them on paper de- 

 vised, there were yet many minor, but none the 

 less difficult, problems to be surmounted. The 

 problem of binding alone, because of the tipping 

 in of 1,260 separate color prints, was entirely new 

 and required unique treatment. It seems hardly 

 worthy of great explanation at this point, but if 

 the reader were to see the hundreds of sample 

 volumes submitted by various binderies and to 

 compare them with the new method devised for 

 the purpose and embodied in these books, he 

 would at once realize that many months of con- 

 centrated study were devoted to this subject. 



The text printing, the type made from The 

 Society's own matrices, the paper made according 



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