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The Santa Rosa Walnut 
On inside back cover will be found a photograph of one of my "Santa 
Rosa" walnut trees. As far as known this tree produces more nuts, which 
sell at higher prices (with never a failure of crops) than any other walnut 
tree on earth. 
Campbell, Cal, Oct. 3, 1910. 
Mr. Luther Burbank, 
Santa Rosa, Cal. 
Dear Mr. Burbank: — 
Your favor of recent date at hand inquiring about record of the ''Santa Rosa" 
walnut tree. 
We kept no record of the First few crops. The record since is as follows: 
1897 250 lbs. 1904 481 lbs. 
1898 300 lbs. 1905 250 lbs. 
1899 229 lbs. 1906 200 lbs. 
1900 600 lbs. 1907 380 lbs. 
1901 237 lbs. 1908 712 lbs. 
1902 478 lbs. 1909 575 lbs. 
1903 380 lbs. 1910 (estimated) 600 lbs. 
These nuts have always sold from two to five cents more per pound than the so- 
called "No. l's" from Southern California. 
With kindest regards, I am, 
Yours very truly, GEORGE C. PAYNE. 
Judge's Chambers County Court, Juvenile Court, \ 
Ben B. Lindscy, Judge. 
Air. Luther Burbank, 
Santa Rosa, Cal. 
My dear Mr. Burbank: — 
I have been so much interested in your work with other plants that I felt like 
shouting for joy when 1 found that you were equally interested in the human plant, 
where there is as much opportunity for progress as in the life of those plants you 
have so wonderfully developed. Seven years in the children's court, and much study 
in all the large cities in this country of the trials and tribulations of childhood and 
the problem of crime so directly related thereto, has tremendously impressed me with 
the necessity for the education of the masses along these lines, and I welcome a thou 
sand times to the literature on the subject your little volume, which I have been reading 
with the greatest interest, and which seems to me to come nearer pointing the right 
way than anything that has come under my observation. 
I do want to congratulate you upon this valuable addition you have made to the 
great work of child-saving, or rather man-saving and man-making. 
Sincerely yours, 
BEN B. LINDSEY, Denver, Colo. 
"I have seen mean, envious tilings in the press since Carnegie help bad been 
given — but, of course, you will not mind them. Led by your genius, you will plod 
doggedly, industrious])' on your flowery, fruitful, Godful way with the sincere admira- 
tion of every lover of Nature and mankind. 
"With all good wishes and warm regard, 1 am every faithfully yours, 
"JOHN MUfR." 
