A DAY WITH MR. BURBANK 
under way,—these he must dictate answers to 
direct, or make notations in his clear strong 
hand as to the answer to be sent. The 
magnitude as well as the extent of the work 
may often be indicated by a single day’s mail. 
Letters arrive from all over the United 
States, from Mexico, from many South Amer- 
ican points, while there is scarcely an out- 
of-the- way place in Europe or Asia where 
fruits or flowers are cultivated that has not 
either some collector who is in constant touch 
with Mr. Burbank in supplying him with rare 
plants and seeds for experimentation, or some 
florist or horticulturist anxious to have some 
fruit or flower from the famous gardens of 
Santa Rosa. One large scrap-book contains 
an extensive list of foreign souvenir postal- 
cards bearing greetings from people he has 
never seen or heard of before. Very many 
letters come from Great Britain and’ her 
dependencies, the interest in Mr. Burbank’s 
work being particularly deep among English- 
men. France and Russia send many letters, 
as do Italy and Germany, while many come 
from India, China, Japan and Australia. 
There are communications, too, from crowned 
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