The Potato Itself— 



Who Will 

 Improve It Further? 



No Plant Is Ever a Finished Product — Potato 

 Suggestions 



THE story of the Buii)ank potato has been 

 told many times. But it has seldom been 

 told correctly. Like stories in general, it 

 gains or loses something almost every time it is 

 repeated, and it sometimes comes back to me in 

 a guise that is scarcely recognizable. 



The real story of the production of the Bur- 

 bank potato is very simple. Something of the 

 economic value of the discovery has been sug- 

 gested in an earlier chapter, and will be touched 

 on again before we are through. The importance 

 of the discovery to me personally has also been 

 suggested. It constituted my first commercially 

 valuable plant development, and furnished a prac- 

 tical means of coming to California, where, doubt- 

 less, my experiments have been carried out on a 

 far more comprehensive scale than they ever 

 would have been in New England. 



[Volume VII — Chapter IX] 



