NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
intelligent application of the forces of Nature 
which are always awaiting our commands. 
The vast possibilities of plant- breeding can 
hardly be estimated. They are not alone for 
one year or for our own time or race, but 
are beneficent legacies for every man, woman 
and child who shall ever inhabit the earth.” 
Much of the preliminary work in Mr. 
Burbank’s plant-breeding is carried on at 
Santa Rosa, where his home is located. He 
lives here in a small, old-fashioned, two-story 
frame house, with an immaculate front yard 
and four acres of testing-grounds to the rear. 
Near the dwelling is a small greenhouse where 
certain tests are all the time under way, 
particularly those in which the plants require 
forcing in order to hasten the work. In the 
rear of the greenhouse stands his packing- 
house, the upper portion being given up to 
storage. Here are thousands of paper sacks 
and boxes containing all manner of seeds, 
roots and bulbs, many of them in the midst 
of tests, many of them finished products 
priceless in value. 
The open ground in the rear of the house 
and barn is divided off into beds of different 
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