How to Judge Novelties-Look to Their Source 



In distributing this brief list of new fruits and flowers we will ask if it is not 

 a very significant fact that the new creations which have gone out from our estab- 

 lishment have always received the utmost favor with the growers, dealers and 

 consumers everywhere, a large portion of them becoming in time the recognized 

 Standards of Excellence, and greatly extending the areas of successful culture. 



They are all carefully tested, not with a few others, but with tens of thou- 

 sands, and in many cases with hundreds of thousands of their kind. From this 

 vast number to judge by and select from, none but those of superlative excellence 

 are ever placed before the public, and these, instead of receiving the fate of a large 

 share of the so-called "Novelties" — early oblivion — are, as each season passes, 

 growing very rapidly in favor, and a great and ever increasing volume of grati- 

 tude and thanks are coming to us from all lands for helping to make the very best 

 of fruits and nuts an every-day food for all instead of an expensive luxury for the 

 few, and for new trees, shrubs, flowers, grains and grasses which have awakened 

 new thoughts of the possibilities of scientific horticulture and of man's power to 

 coax nature to produce another Eden. 



The time, the care, and the expense of producing these new fruits and flow- 

 ers is simply astounding to those not familiar with the facts. They are usually 

 offered ONCE ONLY, all the main financial profits being secured by the early 

 purchasers and planters. If in the past we had received only one cent for each 

 ten thousand dollars added to the wealth of the world by our plant productions, 

 those mentioned in this list could be pased out freely to all who ask, but no great 

 undertaking can long exist without some provision for running expenses, there- 

 fore the prices accompanying this list. 



Thousands of correspondents imagine that this is a Government station, 

 sending orders for our ''bulletins," asking endless strings of questions and innu- 

 merable favors, all of which are complied with when anywhere within the bounds 

 of reason or common sense. 



We have no Government aid, no college endowment, and nothing whatever to keep 

 up the work except the occasional sale of these new fruits and Howers. Widely known 

 experts in law, medicine or any other profession require a fee of from $io to 

 $500 for their written opinion, and we are often advised to adopt the same means 

 to protect ourself from so much unnecessary correspondence, which is our great- 

 est burden. Most of the questions could be answered quite as well by some of 

 the United States Experiment Stations, which have been established and are sup- 

 ported by the Government for this very purpose. 



"The orip:inator of a new plant or fruit should have the same protection as other invent- 

 ors. It takes years before their merits are known, and the skill, trials, difficulties, patience, 

 labor, expense and perseverance are wholly unrewarded, for as soon as it is once sold It 

 becomes public property. It is a lifelong work, and at threescore and ten is only begun. 

 History may pass on the name, while poverty may be the reward!" — W. B. K. J., Allen- 

 town, Penn. 



"No other man has given to horticulture so many valuable things as has Luther Bur- 

 bank. The list of fruits he has given to this country is a large one and embraces some of the 

 most valuable varieties now grown." — Pacific Rural Press. 



