BUFBANk'S 1020 NEW CREATIONS IN SiSEDS 
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A New Flax The "Burbank" '^he llniled SlaU-s of Amorica produce's an 
average ol lliirly-lni-ee million dollars worth 
of flax seed annually. lis uses are loo well known and loo numerous lo menlion. 
Some ten years ago a company of French artists urgently requested me lo produce 
a flax which would make a natural limpid while oil, as the clear colors of tlieir 
pictures were blurred and deadened by the oils which they were obliged to use. 
From a small sample of seeds from some light brown East Indian flax which they 
had obtained, and which reverted lo the originai dark for several years, I have 
now to offer the most remarkable flax ever produced. The seeds of Ihe "Biirbaiik" 
are of nearly double Ihe size of anij other, are of a beanliful limpid luhile, and 
yield twelve per cent more oil per pound of seed. The oil is more readily ex- 
tracted and with less waste. The plants are fully as productive as the ordinary 
flax. The "Burbank" Flax will be welcomed not only by artists, but by painters in 
general, manufacturers of oil cloths and linoleums, by druggists, and for home 
use by everybody. An extremely hardy, vigorous variety. 
Per packet of 100 seeds, 25c; ounce, $1. 
New Rainbow Chard or Asparagus Beet |}y crossing the improved Swiss 
Ghard with the sweet table beets, 
a more vigorous strain has been produced with enormous leaves and stalks of 
white, pink, green, scarlet, crimson, orange, and yellow. Both the l)road, succu- 
lent stalks and leaves exhibit a mingling of wonderful iridescent lainbow shades. 
The leaves are deeply crimped and pitted like the Savoy cabijage. Nothing in the 
garden can be so easily raised, and no other vegetable produces such a vast and 
perpetual supply of delicious and healthful succulent food, as delicious as the 
best garden spinach. 
Packet, 15c; ounce, 25c; pound, $3. 
Carlin Bay, InAiio, Aug. 18, 1919. — TIic "Rniii])o\v" Cluird is surely woudci-lul . We luivc 
been using it all summer J'or greens. I never tasled anything so good and it has done so well 
it is a pleasure to watch It grow. p. 
San Francisco, Cai,. — From your Rainbow (lhard seed we have been using the greens I'or my 
chickens. It has large, tender leaves, which 1 have been taking li-oni Ihese plants all summer, 
and they have not yet started to send up seed stalks, which 1 lind the other chard does. If 
you have seeds of other plants which will produce a large lot of greens Tor chickens and will not 
seed quickly, let me know. W. 1\. 
Ottumwa, Iowa, Jan. l.'J, 1919. — I want to connnend your Swiss Chard licet tor greens. ^Ve 
think it is equal to spinach and it is the only greens that 1 can state 1 really like. A. T. G. 
Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. Ki, 1919. — We had lost our taste I'or Swiss Chard from using the 
ordinary green-leaved kind, but the "Rainbow" variety brought it back two-told. It did 
especially well, canned in the Cold Tack method. K. >i. 
Common Swiss Chard Beet Vfhiable for poultry, ])rodticing a large lot of 
green leed in the shortest time. Ounce, lOc; 
pound, $1; per 100 pounds, not prepaid, special rale. 
The Sunberry '^'^^^^ Burbank Sunberry, an absolutely new si)ecies of Solanum 
created on my own farms, is an annual beri'v [jlaiit of the 
easiest culture, thriving even on rather poor soil. 'Fhe berries are almost exacllv 
like the large, sweet huckleberries of the Eastern slates, 'ilie plants bear enormous 
quantities of ben 'ies which are highly prized for cooking, canning, etc. (irown 
and treated same as tomato plants, but with much less Vare. The Sunberrv is 
especially prized in the cold North and in hot desert countries where other 
berries do not thrive. 
The ber ries, like some blackberries, should be allowed to ripen two weeks alter 
turning black if to be ealen raw, when thev become very sweet and delicious ;nid 
will then remain in good condition on the plants for two months or more If 'to be 
cooked they may be used in a week or so after turning black. A dozen large ijtick- 
ing Arms could be profitably employed in canning this fruit for two or three 
months each season. Will thrive in any climate and on iinv soil. The berries 
when picked will keep fresh nearly a month. On rich soil plant 3 \ I leet aparl- 
on poor soil, 2x3 feet. The berries may be rapidly gathered on a cloth bv 
threshing the plants with a light stick. The ordinary production i)er tu-re is from 
twenty-five lo /orty thousand pounds. Packet, 15c; ounce, lOc; i)()und, S;3. 
Bi.ocKSBURO Cai.., Aug 20, 1919.— We are greatly pleased with the plants grown Irnn. voiir 
seed, especially your Sunberry. We, and every one who has ealen them in nP, ■ n,l J-, ',. •, •„ 
nounce them the finest Iruit we have ever ealen. ' Du li C \\ 
.San Gabriel, Cal., Sept. 18, 1919.— Your little sunberries are a great success— most del iei„n« 
ber'rv^nie' ' ^vith the Ea'-stei-u Blueberry m^^^^ 
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Cincinnati, Ohio, April 21, 1919.-I grew the Sunberry two years ago and found them delicious. 
