LUTHER BURBANK 



help us in the very practical, useful work of 

 coaxing from Nature new forms of plant life — 

 better forms than, uncoaxed, she would give us — 

 plants which because of their greater productivity 

 will help us lovi^er our constantly increasing cost 

 of living — plants which will yield us entirely 

 new substances to be used in manufactures — 

 plants which will grow on what now are waste 

 lands — plants which, by their better fruit, or their 

 increased beauty, or their doubled yield, or their 

 improved quality, will add to our individual 

 pleasures and profits, and to the pleasures and 

 profits of the w^hole world. 



[End of Volume I] 



— In order to work forward 

 a little, we must work 

 backward ages and ages. 



