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this catalogue the opportunity occurs for stating that some of the best results 

 of more than twenty years of an active life are portrayed in the pages following. 

 The fruits and flowers here mentioned are the best of viillions of cross-bred, 

 hj^brid and seedling plants, which are now and have been produced at the rate 

 of a million or more a year. Many years must be spent in testing and segre- 

 gating those which are to become familiar, well-known standards of excel- 

 lence as so many new fruits and flowers, which have been produced on my 

 grounds, are now known to be. 



The time has arrived when purchasers of new and valuable novelties in 

 fruits and flowers are aware that America as well as Europe may furnish 

 some of them. 



During the twenty years in which I have been actively engaged in this 

 new work, which is wholly a private enterprise and the most extensive of its 

 kind which exists or has ever existed in this or any other country, many new 

 plants have been produced and introduced. Among the first which acquired a 

 national reputation was the Burbank Potato, which originated in 1873; though 

 now partly supplanted by newer varieties in the Eastern States, it is still the 

 standard on the Pacific Coast, and has long helped to nourish the brain and 



