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Luther Burbaxk, Santa Rosa, Cal, 



is to propagate and disseminate, in large quantities, the new as well as the old varieties. 

 Mr. Burbank has succeeded in improving the old varieties to almost as great an extent as 

 in introducing new kinds. His work will continue to be watched with interest." — The 

 Nalio7ial Nuyseryniau . 



" Desultory and unscientific experiment will not answer. The subject must be pursued 

 in a thoroughly scientific manner. The work is tedious and most uncertain at the beginning. 

 All the processes, from the pollenizing of the flowers to the gathering of the seed, require 

 the utmost care. Many of the fertilized flowers will fail to set seed, and then the fruits 

 which contain the coveted seeds must be carefully watched throughout the season. It 

 requires another year, sometimes many years, to produce plants from these, and the most 

 careful investigation of their characters must be made. vSometimes the material produced 

 will be too scanty to work with, and again it will be so abundant and will open out into so 

 many directions, that a man with anything else on his hands will despair of exploring them 

 all. No one can have too large a knowledge of horticultural varieties for this work ; no 

 one can have too profound a knowledge of plant-growth ; no one can have too many 

 appliances at his command to make the work efficient. It certainly is worthy of the 



highest skill atid the closest application The extent of his work only shows how much 



nmst be done l)efore one good variety can be brought forth ; and how ardent must be the 

 zeal which sustains any individual through long years of laljor, expense and uncertaint}-. 

 It can hardly be expected that many other ])ersons will enter the field witli so much 

 enthusiasm, determination and ability." — Gaiden and Forest. 



" Your catalogue has great interest in its botanical and biological aspects, as well as 

 pomologically. I showed it to Prof. Brewer of New^ Haven, who made the first botanical 

 survey of California, and he said he would ask you for one as a matter of scientific 

 information." A. J. CoE, Connecticut. 



" The quinces are received in good order. I am simply amazed at your work. When 

 I consider how hard I have worked and how little I have done, I cannot begin to understand 

 how it has been possible for you to accomplish so much. For a time I could not but 

 question whether your climate did not deceive you. There are too few to appreciate such 

 work as yours." E. S. Carman, Rural Experiment Grounds. 



" You have certainly been very successful in your work of producing new things of 

 promise. I hope some of our Government Experiment Stations may be as successful in 

 what they undertake." G. W. McCi.rp:K, 



Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Illinois. 



"While I have long been impressed with your work, I am now overwhelmed with the 

 vast amount of good you have been able to accomplish. I respect your work above all that 

 has ever been done for horticulture." Wm. B. Aiavood, 



Horticulturist, Entomologist and Mycologist, 

 Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, Agricultural Experiment Station. 



"'Catalogue of New Creations.' A remarkably unique catalogue issued by Luther 

 Burbank, who seems to have devoted his life chiefly to the improvement of fruits and 

 flowers. He has been eminently successful in this line, and we have here an illustrated 

 catalogue of fifty-two pages, devoted wholly to the description of the more valuable of his 

 productions. He does not sell them all singly, but offers the whole stock of each kind for 

 sale at prices suited to the character of the new introduction. It is a particularly useful 

 field to occupy, and one in which we believe Mr. Burbank stands alone." — 3Iee/ia?is' Monthly. 



" A copy of your new catalogue came sometime ago, and it is of unusual interest. You 

 occupy a position in the experimental world that is certainly quite unparalleled." 



H. E. Van Dem.an, 

 Chief of Division of Pomology, 

 U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



" I look upon your results as the most palpable practical outcome of the Darwinian 

 revolution in thought." Dr. Robt. H. Lamborn, New York. 



" Mr. Burbank is doing a stupendous, unequaled work. That any one man can do the 

 work — nay, the tenth of it — that he seems to have done, passeth the understanding." — 

 Rural New Yorker. 



" Chestnuts received ; thev are certainlv as sweet as the average American Sweet 

 Chestnut." ' ' A. J. CoE, Conn. 



