THE 1901 



SUPPLEMENT TO 



NEW CR.E ATIONS 



-v* I N V 



Fruits and Flowers 



The Original "Burbank" Plum Tree, now sixteen years of 

 age. It has never failed to produce a full crop of good fruit. 

 This picture was taken just after the first thinning and the 

 ground under the tree is covered two deep with the plums. All 

 the millions of Burbank plum trees in the world came from this 

 tree, which takes its present form from the severe cutting for 

 buds and grafts which it experienced in its youth. 



"Half the flora of the world still contains the riddle of the Sphinx. Three thou- 

 sand years of study and experiment have merely brought a handful of species of plants 

 into successful cultivation, while the vast majority hold their secret for future genera- 

 tions to solve. In the economy of nature they only work out their purpose half- 

 heartedly, and often to the detriment of those who are placed as guardians over them. 

 They are still the wild, sour grapes of the primitive forest, or the bitter, acid fruits of 

 the thorn-apple tree." — "Lippincott's," 



Bvirbank^s Experiment Farms 



LUTHER BURBANK 

 Office and R.esidence, C A WT A D/^C A Sonoma Coxinty 



204 Santa Rosa Avenvie ^ AlX i A KCIO A, California, V. S. 



CEO. f^lCE &- ^ONvl, INC., L. A. 



