THE 1901 
SUPPLEMENT TO 
NEW CREATIONS 
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." 
Bvirbarvk's Experiment Farms 
Office and Residence, 
204 Sarvta Rosa Avenvie 
LUTHER BURBANK 
SANTA ROSA. 1°^™*°™%. a. 
