Volume XII— By Chapters 



Foreword Page 3 



I Luther Burbank — His Boyhood on a 



Massachusetts Farm 



^The Conception of an Idea and the Birth fj 



of a Great Ambition • 



n Luther Burbank — The Early Years 

 in Santa Rosa 



t 

 ^ —The Period of Bitter f--^ 



107 



TTT 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 ICC 



and Agriculture XOO 



Luther Burbank — The Bearing of 

 His Work on Human Life 



_0n Improving the Human 



Plant. 



203 



yj The Luther Burbank 

 Society 



—What It Has Done and What n/ln 



It PropoBCfl Zffci 



List of Direct Color Photograph 



Prints in Volume XII 289 



Subject Index to 



Volumes I-XH 293 



