NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



one of the finest prune orchards in California 

 or the world is growing from these trees. 



It was a concrete illustration of the re- 

 sourcefulness of the man and of that which 

 has again and again been shown in his later 

 life, his supreme indifference to precedent. 



He early established an unvarying rule, 

 never to send out anything which was not, so 

 far as lay in his power, precisely what it was 

 represented to be. So his name became a 

 synonym for exact honesty, — if it came from 

 Burbank, it was to be depended upon. 



An incident well illustrates the confidence 

 men had in him when once they came to know 

 him. He was in need of some extra money to 

 use in carrying forward a branch of his work. 

 He had applied for a loan unsuccessfully at 

 quite a number of places. His very modesty 

 and shrinkingness, in the eyes of a business 

 man, stood against him. One day, when he had 

 given up hope of the loan, he saw a team of 

 horses in the distance coming down the dusty 

 road. As the team drew near he recognized a 

 man who lived in the region, by common repu- 

 tation a miserable old skinflint. Hailing from 

 the road as he drove up, he called out; 



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