EDUCATION AND SELECTION are the two great forces used in the 
production of all these new fruits and flowers. 
Not knowing the facts, and because some of them happen to be crossed, 
people often jump at the conclusion that they are all summarily produced by 
crossing with about as little science or ceremony as a wizard would appear to do 
it with his magic wand. 
VISITORS 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 required 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 everything herein described must be carefully kept back by cold 
storage to supply Eastern and Foreign customers. 
W e hold all the stock of these novelties in existence; none of them can be obtained 
elsewhere on earth. 
Everything described in this list will be prepaid by mail or express anywhere 
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 CASH; no time to keep books. 
The marvelous favor which our work 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 Groiver 
"Luther Burbank has probably developed more new varieties of plant life than any 
other living man."— Analy Standard. y 
"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. s 
"With what success Burbank has worked and pondered all the world knows "— C H S 
in New York World. ' ' 
"I respect your work above all that has ever been done for horticulture "— W B A. 
Blacksburg, Va. 
