The Luther Burbank Society 



— ^What It Has Done 

 AND What It Proposes 



ASIDE from the unquestioned value of his 

 own personal researches, the world owes 

 much to Prof, Hugo de Vries of the Uni- 

 versity of Amsterdam in Holland. It was Prof, 

 de Vries who discovered the writings of the monk 

 Mendel and interpreted them to the world. 



And it was Prof, de Vries, who through a char- 

 acteristic description of Luther Burbank's work 

 set in motion the train of thought which later 

 crystallized into The Luther Burbank Society, an 

 organization brought together for the express 

 purpose of making Mr. Burbank's life work avail- 

 able to the masses; an organization without which, 

 it is quite likely, the world for many generations 

 to come would never have profited by the labors of 

 the modest plant experimenter of Santa Rosa. 



The particular thing which Prof, de Vries said 

 came in connection with an appreciative account 



[Volume XII — Chapter VI] 



