Foreword to Volume XII 



Having covered the entire range of plants with 

 which Mr. Burbank has worked, and having ob- 

 tained a thorough understanding of all the 

 methods he has employed, we are given, in this 

 volume, a summing up of what has gone before, 

 with an eye not only to its application to plant life, 

 but to the immediate improvement of the human 

 plant. 



In this volume also will be found the intimate 

 life story of Luther Burbank; from his boyhood 

 days in Massachusetts, through his first hardships 

 in Santa Rosa, to the final glory of success, to- 

 gether with a report of the work of the Luther 

 Burbank Society and an outline of its plans for 

 the widespread dissemination of Mr. Burbank's 

 methods and discoveries in the future. 



THE EDITORS. 



