THE LUTHER BURBANK SOCIETY 



to The Society's own specifications in a special 

 mill run, all of these and many other details, small 

 individually but large in the aggregate, proved 

 time-consuming, energy-eating problems, which 

 had to be solved. 



It will be seen, thus, that The Society's first 

 work was to arrange and classify Mr. Burbank's 

 voluminous records, covering the entire field of his 

 experiments, to make the necessary comparisons 

 with contemporary science, and to write the whole, 

 first into a lucid, easily understood exposition at 

 the same time illustrating all of his methods and 

 discoveries in natural color, and to put the whole 

 into book form so that each phase of every opera- 

 tion might be made crystal clear to the reader, 

 whether his interest be general or specific. 



With the completion of these twelve volumes 

 the first cycle of The Society's operations thus is 

 accomplished. 



But it is not meant by this that The Society's 

 work is at an end — in fact the most important 

 work is yet to come. 



With all of Mr. Burbank's work charted, 

 mapped, analyzed, classified, with contemporary 

 science and practice placed in parallel in accessible 

 form, and with all of the records of State and Gov- 

 ernment Experiment Stations and many records 

 generously donated by individual experimenters, 



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