zation is but partial^ yet very few appreciate fully how 

 strenuous and comprehensive has been his work. 



By practice and concentration^ Burbank has developed 

 his mental and physical powers to a most unusual degree. 

 After fifty years of grueling and continuous effort^ he is 

 now able to conduct simultaneously and keep fully famil- 

 iar with every detail of thousands of different experiments. 



The responsiveness of the senses to conscious training is 

 dramatically demonstrated by the following true incident 

 which occurred at Santa Rosa. Some years ago Mr. Bur- 

 bank passed a bed of verbenas just coming to blossom. 

 Suddenly he stopped^ dropped to his hands and knees and 

 began crawling through the verbena bed. He had noticed 

 the familiar trace of the delicate trailing arbutus odor com- 

 ing from unscented verbenas. He searched until he had 

 located the plant sending it forth^ and then was ready to 

 begin the production of a sweet-scented verbena. Yet 

 Burbank says: *'There is no magic in it; every person 

 equipped with a good nose and a good pair of eyes can 

 reach the same sensitiveness." 



As a demonstration of his invincible patience when striv- 

 ing for a desired improvement^ his work with the daisy 

 may be taken as typical. In developing the Shasta Daisy, 

 Burbank produced millions of plants and blossoms, destroyed 

 ninety out of every hundred, and continued with the seeds 

 of the survivors until he had developed the exact product 

 he had visualized. 



The great plant breeder spares neither time nor effort 

 when working out his theories. He has recently com- 

 pleted an experim^ent, the result of which attracted nation- 

 wide attention. Eighteen years ago he began, and has 

 lately completed, the arduous task of retracing the evolution 

 of corn from the Indian grass teosinte. By nature's un- 

 aided and undirected processes it had taken generations to 

 accomplish the evolution. 



No Magic Wand 



Like Antaeus, Luther Burbank lives close to the soil and 

 receives new strength from daily contact with it. He car- 

 ries no wizard's wand, possesses no magic power. What he 



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