LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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An outfit for an amateur breeder .... 232 



The "Burbank" and "Tarry town" cannas under test at 



Santa Rosa, where they originated . . . 24-5 



Showing method of grafting ..... 252 



Upper part of a tree bearing many grafts. As many as five 

 hundred fruits are grown upon a single tree at once, no 

 two exactly alike ...... 261 



The essentials for amateur grafting .... 268 



The sugar prune, — larger, sweeter, earlier and more pro- 

 ductive than the older prunes .... 277 



The re-created wild onion flower, Broditva capitata, changed 

 from a deep purple to purest white and greatly increased 

 in sue ....... 280 



On the proving grounds at Sebastopol. Pampas grass in the 



center, various bulbous plants in the foreground . 284 



Mr. Burbank pollinating the blossoms of a plum tree . £91 



The original Burbank plum tree. Millions of trees have 



been grown from it .... . 396 



Cultivating the mammoth pieplant. Some leaves are three 



to four feet across. Mr. Burbank is the central figure . 302 



Mr. Burbank's home, at Santa Rosa, California . . 30S 



General view of the proving grounds at Sebastopol, show- 

 ing many thousands of plants under test . . 327 



The improved everlasting flower to be used in millinery . 330 



Leaves of blackberry hybrid, all grown from seed of one 



plant, showing the remarkable variation . . 344 



One of the few double hybrid clematises . . . 356 



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