COMMERCIAL ASPECTS OF THE WORK 
Many have begged the opportunity of going 
into partnership with him on a very large 
scale, offering to provide all the money neces- 
sary. Eager requests for the plants that he 
has to sell come from every country, and he 
had the making at Santa Rosa of the greatest 
and most profitable nursery business in the 
world. Mr. Burbank, however, is not out 
for money. Money to him is only a means 
to an end—the blessing of mankind by as 
wide a distribution as possible of flowers more 
beautiful and fruits of higher grade than 
ever before existed. 
“When Mr. Burbank introduced his won- 
derful sugar prune four years ago, I secured 
a hundred feet of grafting wood from him, 
and produced four thousand nursery trees in 
a single year. In the succeeding year I had 
over fifty thousand trees for sale—by far the 
largest stock of that variety then in existence. 
I had difficulty in disposing of the trees, 
because they were not then known to be a 
commercial success, and California growers 
would not plant out large quantities until 
they knew the public would buy the fruit. 
Mr. Burbank, as I knew, had sold out his 
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