LUTHER BURBANK 



and was so pleased with the result that he sent 

 word next season that he would be glad to talk 

 with me. Accordingly I went to see him. I 

 looked forward with pleasure to the visit, as Mr. 

 Gregory had an interesting garden and a very 

 complete seed establishment. But I was a little 

 diflfident about going, and so persuaded a friend, 

 the Hon. J, T. Brown, then a banker in Lunenburg, 

 to accompany me. 



I shall always entertain the most vivid and 

 pleasing recollections of the day spent in Mr. 

 Gregory's gardens, and of the hospitality extended 

 by the owner and his family. 



Mr. Gregory showed a basket of beautiful 

 potatoes, which he declared to be quite the best he 

 had ever seen, and which, he assured me, were 

 the product of the sample I had sent him. He 

 asked me to sell the potato to him outright, giving 

 him the exclusive right of introduction of the new 

 vegetable. And that, of course, was precisely 

 what I wished to do. 



The matter of terms was not so easily adjusted. 

 I had thought that $500 would not be more than a 

 fair price for the new potatoes. But Mr. Gregory 

 said that $150 was the most that he could pay. 

 Other new potatoes were being developed, he 

 said, and this one would not have the monopoly 

 that it might have had a few years earlier. Had 



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