FJ)L'C\\1 IPX A\I) SELFXTIOX arc the two .threat forces used in the 

 production of all these new fruits and dowers. 



Not knowinjj;- the facts, and because some of them hai)i:)en to be crossed, 

 people often jumj) at the conclusion that they are all sunnnarily produced by 

 crossing w ith about as little science or ceremony as a wizard would appear to do 

 it with his magic wand. 



\'lSrr()RS to our grounds are not allowed, as no possible benefit can 

 accrue and we have no time to spare. 



.Applications for SAMPLE FRUITS cannot generally be complied with, 

 as a small army of specially trained men would be recjuired during the priceless 

 hours of the ripening season, when the habits, peculiarities and probable com- 

 parative value of the many, many thousands of new candidates must be 

 promptly, carefully, and very rapidly attended to. 



ORDER EARLY AS POSSIBLE. Spring commences in California with 

 February, and ever\ thing herein described must be carefully kept back by cold 

 storage to supply Eastern and Foreign customers. 



We hold all the stoek of these iwvehies in existence; none of them can be obtained 

 elsezvhere on earth. 



Everything described in this list will be prepaid by mail or express anyw^here 

 in the United States, Canada or Mexico, except the trees mentioned on pages 

 2 and 7. 



NO RESTRICTIONS whatever; multiply and distribute as fast as possible. 



TERMS INVARIABLY CASFI; no time to keep books. 



The marvelous favor wdiich our w^ork is receiving can, in a measure, be esti- 

 mated by the expressions of scientific and horticultural societies and journals of 

 all countries, by the managers of colleges, and experiment stations at home and 

 abroad, and last by the people who love fruits and flowers. 



A few sample clippings from the above-mentioned sources are introduced 

 for variety. We have some ten thousand similar ones. 



"California may well be proud of the rare work done by Luther Burbank as the pro- 

 ducer of many useful and beautiful plants and fruit products." — California Fruit Grower. 



"Luther Burbank has probably developed more new varieties of plant life than any 

 other living man." — Analy Standard. 



"I never lose touch of your great work. The fame of it rolls round the world, via Lon- 

 don, to me frequently." — F. C. S., Yalumba, South Australia. 



"It is easy to conceive, in regard to progress, that the Americans do not keep behind, 

 and in California lives a horticultural searcher whose success excites the greatest admiration 

 in the whole horticultural and botanical world." — S. S., in Magazine of the Royal Hunga- 

 rian National Science Society. 



"With what success Burbank has worked and pondered all the world knows." — C. H. S., 

 in New York Jl^orld. 



"I respect your work above all that has ever been done for horticulture." — W. B. A., 

 Bhicksburg, Va. 



