A DAY WITH MR. BURBANK 
eight miles distant. Here he devotes the 
entire day to overlooking the larger work of 
the main proving ground. More men are 
employed here than at Santa Rosa, as the 
work is more extensive. Great difficulty is 
experienced in getting men who can adapt 
themselves to the work. The day spent at 
Sebastopol is particularly hard, for the work of 
the week preceding must all be inspected and 
plans laid down for the following week. Here 
there must be constant care exercised that no 
mistakes be made, for mistakes here, where 
the tests have so far advanced that actual 
results are being reached, are fatal indeed. 
Hundreds of thousands of fruit trees of all 
kinds needing inspection; work upon berries, 
grapes, ornamental shrubs of many kinds; 
extensive tests in flowers, on a scale larger 
than could be carried out at Santa Rosa; 
experiments in fast-growing trees, tests of 
plants which have been recommended from all 
parts of the world as suitable for further 
development or for combination with other 
plants,—these are some of the factors that 
unite to make the days spent at Sebastopol 
wearing to the very last degree. In so far as 
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