Chapter Titles—Continued 



Food for Live Stock 



A Rich Field for Work in the Textile Plants 



Plants Which Yield Useful Chemical Substances 



Reclaiming the Deserts with Cactus 



What to Work for in Flowers 



Ornamental Palms and Climbing Vines 



Lawns and Their Beautification 



Nuts as a Profitable Crop 



Growing Trees for Lumber 



Trees and Shrubs for Shade and Ornament 



Working with a Universal Flower — the Rose 



The Rivalry of Plants to Please Us 



Marvelous Possibilities in the Improvement of Plants 



How the Garden May Be Made More Productive 



Letting the Bees Do Their Work 



Personal and Historical 



Patience and Its Reward 



Burbank's laboratory is the great out-of-doors. 

 He lives close to the soil and receives new strength 

 from daily contact with it. The only agencies 

 he employs are earth, sun, water, air — no other 

 alchemy; not a thing that the humblest plant 

 lover does not have at his disposal. 



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