ON EAlU^Y YEARS IN SANtA ROSA 



energies were to be devoted to the work of plant 

 development — the work that had been projected, 

 and at -which a beginning had been made back 

 in Massachusetts, and the hope of continuing 

 which had been the incentive to persistent efforts 

 during the period of stress and privation. 



— An inventory of my belong- 

 ings on my arrival in California 

 would have shown very little 

 excepting clothing, books, gar- 

 den seeds and ten Burbank 

 potatoes that Mr. Gregory had 

 allowed me to keep when he 

 purchased that vegetable. 



