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Luther Burbank, Santa Rosa, Cal. 



" I am au admirer of your ' Burbauk ' Plum. I have about three hundred and fifty 

 growing now, and expect to set out more the coming year. I raised, or rather, the trees 

 produced, samples measuring six and one-fourth inches in circumference this season." 



Andrew Ryder, Placer Co., California. 



" The Burbank Plums bore heavily this year ; they are simply superb ; those who have 

 eaten the fruit pronounce it magnificent," H. E. Goodrich, San Diego Co., Cal. 



"The Burbank Plum 3'ou sent me for testing some time ago has proved such a success 

 here that it seems to me there must be more where that came from. What will you have 

 for next year that I can secure for testing here ? I am anxious to introduce more of your 

 good things here." James Troop, Purdue University, 



Agricultural Experiment Station of Indiana. 



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Ckijkasaw Domestica Hybrid. t^Large and handsome, but not productive.) 



"The Burbauk is the most celebrated of all our importations. After a thorough trial 

 we pronounce it to be the best and most valuable fruit introduced to these colonies and the 

 most profitable that can be grown. The tree, though an enormous bearer, is at the same 

 time a most vigorous grower. The fruit is of the largest size, best flavor, most handsome 

 appearance, and very much superior to all other Japanese Plums. We have fruited the Bur- 

 bank for three years : one three-year-old tree growing in our nursery this autumn pro luced 

 over twenty pounds of large, handsome fruit, some specimens measuring seven (7 : inches in 

 circumference. Visitors to our nursery were amazed at the marvelous sight and agreeably 

 surprised at the splendid flavor of the Burbank. Those who came prejudiced against 

 Japan Plums altered their opinion at once." D. Hay & Son, Auckland, N. Z. 



"The most important conclusion at which I have arrived is that the mere act of 

 crossing does no good. The good depends on the individuals which are crossed, differing 

 slightly in constitution, owing to their progenitors having been subjected to slightly 

 differing conditions, or to what we call, in our ignorance, spontaneous variation." 



— Darivm. 



" Every man has his own vocation. There is one direction in which all space is open 

 to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a 

 ship in a river: He runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all 

 obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an 

 infinite sea."' — Emerson. 



