much of material good to Christendom as has the potato which bears his name. 
More than two hundred million bushels of the Burbank potato are now grown every 
year, and by a most careful and conservative estimate, made from reliable statistics, the 
amount of this variety which has been grown since its introduction is considerably more 
than two billion seven hundred million bushels, or one hundred and sixty-two trillion 
pounds — enough to give every inhabitant of this earth nearly two bushels. 
From the figures quoted above it will be seen that enough Burbank potatoes have 
been produced (counting one pound laid lengthwise to measure one foot) to reach twelve 
hundred and twenty-seven times around the world, and more than one hundred and twenty 
times the distance to the moon. 
The price paid the young propagator for this potato, which is yet in its prime and 
which has added to the wealth of all nations and will doubtless augment the wealth of 
nations yet unborn, was $150. The reader may ponder the consequences to the race if, by 
carelessness or ignorance, this little seed had been lost or destroyed. 
Mr. Burbank now handles, nearly every day, seeds as precious in potentialities as was 
the subject of this sketch — seeds which hold within themselves forces calculated to sway 
the destinies of mankind and even to affect the weal of nations. 
TWO NEW ROSES. 
Last season we introduced the truly ever-blooming rose " SANTA ROSA." 
It at once attracted wide attention for its vigor, brilliancy of color and wonder- 
ful blooming qualities, and it seems necessary to call attention to the fact that 
the two new roses, one the " BURBANK," purchased and named by W. Atlee 
Burpee & Co., of Philadelphia, and the other the " SANTA ROSA," sent out 
by ourselves last season, though coming from the same combination are quite dif- 
ferent in form and color of flower, growth and other respects. Both are perfect 
gems, and no other rose will give greater satisfaction than these will when once 
established; they are not only in name but in fact absolutely continuous bloomers 
throughout every day of the year, and without doubt will produce far more 
blooms during the whole year than any rose before known. It is beyond 
comprehension how any plant can keep up such a constant exhibition of lovely 
flowers as these do and still remain in the most perfect vigor of health; not a leaf 
has ever shown rust, mildew or other weakness or defect on thousands of the 
plants during all their past five years of existence. 
Of " SANTA ROSA," the ABSOLUTELY EVER-BLOOMING rose 
of loveliest form and color, we have very large field-grown bushes only, to offer 
this season. PRICE, EACH $1. PER TEN, $5. Address W. Atlee Burpee 
& Co., Philadelphia, Pa., if you wish for the " Burbank " rose; we have none of 
them for sale. 
" It is fitting that the fairest rose in the world, should borrow from this fair city its 
name and title. To-morrow it will go where the winds go. Under every flag this rose 
will make its home and win esteem."— Santa Rosa Republican. 
The ' SANTA ROSA ' rose is in great demand. The creation is a wonderful one 
and wherever the rose blooms, in distant climes, the name stamps it as an advertisement 
-of the beautiful city from which it gets its name."— Santa Rosa Press Democrat. 
" Mr. Burbank's ROSES are famous the world over. They nod at us from every 
garden and florist's window."— Carmen Harcourt, in Post Magazine. 
" The ' Burbank ' Rose is perfectly hardy. The plants begin to bloom when only a 
few inches high and flower most profusely all through the spring and summer until 
stopped by heavy frost, late in the autumn. We had a bed at Fordhook, which furnished 
a constant supply of beautiful flowers for cutting all summer, and at this writing (Novem- 
ber 23rd, 1897) is still in bloom, quite a fall of snow to-day and yet the original bush is 
also still in bloom."— W. Atlee Burpee, Philadelphia. 
"The BURBANK ROSE is thus really an almost perpetual bloomer."— American 
Gardening. 
"The new 'SANTA ROSA' is making a good growth and is very fine."— Geo W 
Livingston, Monroe, Iowa. 
