LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
FACING 
Cultivating the mammoth pieplant. Some leaves are three 
to four feet across. Mr. Burbank is the central 
figure 
Mr. Burbank pollinating the blossoms of a plum tree 
One of Mr. Burbank’s rare roses 
One of the few double hybrid clematises 
The ‘“‘Burbank” and “Tarrytown” cannas under test at 
Santa Rosa, where they originated 
The improved everlasting flower to be used in millinery . 
The re-created wild onion flower, Brodiva capitata, changed 
from a deep purple to re white and greatly in- 
creased in size . F ‘ oor 
Rare effects developed in the transformation of the colum- 
‘bine; about one-fourth natural size 
Twenty thousand new varieties of plums in process of 
development ¢ i a 7 
A cactus blossom A é 3 
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