" Mr. Burbank's New Quince. — The quince is not a popular fruit in Sonoma 

 County's horticultural realm. A quince is a quince the world over, tart, hard and 

 limited in usefulness. If one could pluck a quince from a tree and eat it as an apple, if 

 it was of delightful flavor, soft and mellow as a Christmas apple, it would be grown on 

 every hillside and in every valley. Such a fruit has been perfected and is destined to 

 be cultivated extensively, not only within the confines of our county, but wherever fruit 

 is grown in the temperate and sub-tropic zones. Our fellow townsman, Luther Burbank, 

 gave this great discovery to the world. For many years he has labored with the end in 

 view to produce a quince possessing all these excellent properties. Varieties from all over 

 the world were obtained and grown. By cross-breeding and selections through many 

 generations of experiment the goal was neared, but not until the present season was 

 success attained. This year he produced in his Gold Ridge experiment grounds what he 

 strived for through these many years, a quince that possessed the flavor of the best of 

 its species, but which is mellow and soft as an apple and may be cooked in from three 

 to five minutes. When this variety is introduced it promises to revolutionize quince 

 culture." — Santa Rosa Republican. 



" Sample ' PINEAPPLE ' quince received, we did not make jelly out of it as what 

 we received seemed hardly enough. We ate some from hand and tried some baked. The 

 flavor was exquisite." — W. T. Smith & Co., Geneva, New York. 



" The fruit is too good for jelly making. It should be used to eat green, as an 

 apple." — S. W. Hoyt, Vacaville. 



PRICES. 



STRAIGHT, THRIFTY TREES, ONE YEAR OLD, TWO TO 

 THREE FEET, EACH $i. SIX, $5. TEN, $8. 



STRONG, HEAVY CUTTINGS, 8 INCHES LONG, TEN FOR 75 

 CTS. PER HUNDRED, $6. PER THOUSAND, $40. 



A FEW VERY LARGE TWO-YEAR-OLD TREES, $3 EACH. 

 THESE ARE TOO LARGE TO SHIP LONG DISTANCES. 



STORY OF ONE POTATO SEED. 



From the San Francisco Vail. 

 A tiny seed may feed a nation! 



An atom of vegetable life may evolve results of universal benefit to mankind. 



Twenty-three years ago last May a New England youth living not far from Boston, 

 in the Old Bay State," held in his hand a single seed about half as large as an ordinary 

 pinhead. It would have taken several hundred of similar size to make a meal for a canary. 



To the ordinary observer the seed would have seemed to differ in no respect from 

 others of its kind, but the youth, who scrutinized it through the eye of genius, thought he 

 had good reasons for believing that it deserved a better fate than to be fed to the birds, 

 and it was therefore carefully planted and tenderly watched all through that New England 

 summer of 1874 — and millions of his fellow men have the benefits wrought by the prescience 

 of a youthful enthusiast then on the threshold of renown in his chosen field of science. 



When the hazy Indian summer came the plant had done its work, and three and 

 one-fourth pounds of the most beautiful white potatoes which had ever been seen were 

 the product of the little seed. 



The tubers were planted and replanted, and when the second season had passed two 

 tons was the crop which a prominent Eastern seedsman purchased and introduced to the 

 public in the spring of 1876. 



The new potato was such an evident improvement upon any tuber of its kind ever 

 known theretofore that it immediately sprang into favor in all parts of America, and it 

 was not long ere its superior qualities became known in all other countries where the 

 potato is grown. 



Such is the genesis of the Burbank potato — named in honor of its originator, Luther 

 Burbank, of Santa Rosa. 



The young New Englander who made this fortunate experiment so many years ago 

 has since become famous among the world's savants in the same line of scientific experi- 

 ment. Many times has he thrilled the scientists of the vegetable world by the announce- 

 ment of a new and distinct species — the creation of such being the principal aim of his 

 professional life — and rich have been the honors showered upon him by his fellow scien- 

 tists and the world at large for his brilliant achievements in the propagation of new fruits, 

 flowers and vegetables, but it is safe to say that no product of his genius has wrought so 



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