NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
one of the finest prune orchards in California 
or the world is growing from these trees. 
It was a concrete illustration of the re- 
sourcefulness of the man and of that which 
has again and again been shown in his later 
life, his supreme indifference to precedent. 
He early established an unvarying rule, 
never to send out anything which was not, so 
far as lay in his power, precisely what it was 
represented to be. So his name became a 
synonym for exact honesty,—if it came from 
Burbank, it was to be depended upon. 
An incident well illustrates the confidence 
men had in him when once they came to know 
him. He was in need of some extra money to 
use in carrying forward a branch of his work. 
He had applied for a loan unsuccessfully at 
quite a number of places. His very modesty 
and shrinkingness, in the eyes of a business 
man, stood against him. One day, when he had 
given up hope of the loan, he saw a team of 
horses in the distance coming down the dusty 
road. As the team drew near he recognized a 
man who lived in the region, by common repu- 
tation a miserable old skinflint. Hailing from 
the road as he drove up, he called out: 
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