NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
of various kinds, with many thousands of 
other fruits, flowers and vegetables. 
The grafting done at Sebastopol, like all the 
work carried on there, is on a large scale. In a 
single grafting season, which comprises about 
ninety working days, more than a hundred 
thousand grafts will be set, covering a wide . 
variety of experiments going forward at the 
same time with many different kinds of fruits. 
From these grafts will grow in a single season 
material for nearly ten million additional 
grafts. Some years since, a company was 
formed in California whose entire business was 
the making of grafts from one of Mr. Bur- 
bank’s choicest plums, selling the grafts to 
nurserymen and fruit-growers all over the 
world. 
At various points throughout the grafting 
section of the grounds young men may be 
seen perched on the tops of ladders in the 
midst of the branches of the trees upon which 
the grafts are set. In this, as in the case of 
flowers and vegetables, Mr. Burbank stands 
ready with suggestions for those who wish to 
take up this branch of the work. 
From the young trees which have been 
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