THE LUTHER BURBANK SOCIETY 



So, at the same time that the Editorial Board 

 began to assemble its editors, it provided a photo- 

 chemical laboratory and purchased and brought 

 together in Santa Rosa, at great expense, a com- 

 plete photographic equipment. 



At that time the beautiful color photography 

 process of Lumiere of Paris was just beginning to 

 gain headway in the United States, though a na- 

 tion-wide search failed to reveal an operator well 

 enough versed in the system to produce a high 

 percentage of satisfactory results. Experiments 

 were taken up at first hand, however, with the 

 result that in The Society's own laboratory it was 

 soon possible to produce uniformly perfect repro- 

 ductions on glass, in natural color, with great 

 fidelity. 



It is doubtful if any other operator in this 

 method in the world has attained such efficiency 

 in working the color-photography process as was 

 attained in the laboratories of The Society — ^yet 

 this, as it developed, was but a beginning. The 

 process rendered beautiful color reproductions, 

 but in many ways these were inaccurate and the 

 plates themselves were far from being sensitive 

 enough to permit of the short exposures which 

 fruits on the tree and flowers in the garden require. 



Thus, during the course of a number of months. 

 The Society's experimenters worked out a much 



[272] 



