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BUBBANK'S 1920 NEW CREATIONS IN SEEDS 
In such advantage has the combination of skillful text and color illustration 
been employed, that what might have been one hundred volumes — the complete 
survey of one of the busiest lifetimes the world has ever known — is placed before 
you now in twelve. 
The great value which the world will derive from what Luther Burbank has 
done — the big, permanent, ever-increasing value of overwhelming importance — 
will he in the application of the Burbank methods to the improvement of the 
human plant — to the production of better races, better nations, better communi- 
ties, better families, better individuals. 
SOME SENTENCE EXPRESSIONS OF OPINION 
The supreme test of a book is not what its author thinks of it— not what its 
publisher thinks of it; the supreme test is what the actual reader, himself, thinks 
of it — the reader, who, having paid his money, must judge the result of his pur- 
chase purely by the satisfaction it has produced. It is impossible, here, to give 
more than a bare suggestion of what the readers of the Burbank Books have said, 
since the number of expressions of opinion runs well into the thousands. The 
sentence excerpts reproduced on the following pages, however, will be found to 
have come from workers in practically every line of the world's activity and 
they may be taken as a true average of the impression which these books have 
created in the minds of their purchasers. 
"The chapters of Luther Burhank's written work are more fascinating than any possible 
romance. The reader feels the heart throbs of the plant in the scorching desert— he is moved 
by the pathos of a life struggle."—/}. M. DES JARDINS, Invenlor-Aulhor, Washinglon, D. C. 
^r'^^^^^r^ ?f??rl",^ ^r,?P^'\^} ? '^^Y^ found nothing that has so impressed me as does this work."— 
(rEU. N. BAUER, Ihe University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. 
"Lulhor Burbank is tlie greatest breeder of plants the world has ever known The ma"nitude 
ol his work excels everything that was ever done before."— £>;{. HUGO DE VRIES Universitu of 
Ainslerclain. ' 
"Burbank, like Columbus, has shoM'n us the way to new continents, new forms of life new 
sources ol wealth, and we, following in his footsteps, will profit by and from his genius."— 
GEO. C. PARDEE, Ex-Governor of California. 
"I wish to say that during my business experience of more than fifty years I have never to mv 
knowledge invested any money that has given mc the same value and satisfaction and pleasure 
as tlic investment in the Burbank volumes."— F. //. BULTMAN, Pres. The F. II. Bultman Co 
vjuLc.jjit lu iiii; L-tiBL-i iitiufi. — .1 . >5i uiji:.u/ii^iii\, ine ^iiiaeoaner corporation, south Bend, Ind. 
"The work is greater than the 'Origin of Species' by Charles Darwin; greater than 'The Mutation 
of .Species' by Hugo de Vries, and much greater than 'The Riddle of the Universe' by Frnest 
Haeckel."— EflG/17{ LUCIEN LARKIX. Director, The Lowe Observatory, Mount Lowe, Calif. 
"It is to me a fairy lale which I wish had been told mc in my youth." — ELIIIU YEDDFR irti'st 
Rome, Italy. - > - 
"These books are not only unique but arc a very fine example of the bookmaking art Thev 
are a delight to the eye and are gotten up in such style as is befitting their eonteiUs. This set oY 
books will become one of my most cherished possessions." — J. W. McCLURE Seen -Treai ' l^ell- 
grade Lumber Co., Memphis, Tenn. 
"No tale or story has ever fascinated me to such an extent as a perusal of these books I 
have been so occupied with public matters that the books lay untouched for several davs When 
I opened them, however, I did not lay them down until 1 had read with intense interest evcrv 
^^'Ol^d."— ROBERT COWELL, Merchant, Omaha, Neb. ""tnse jiucicsi c^cl> 
"Mr. Burbank's operations have been conducted on so gigantic a scale that for breadth of 
view, he has the same advantage over other experimenters that one standing on the summit of -i 
^M"RRr7'7'^«™?rnvl^^ over those who have climbed only to the top of a foothill."- 
GARREll P. SERVISS, in Cosmopolitan Magazine. 
"Both text and illustration are truly wonderful, and I am proud of them " .JOHN MUIR 
Martinez, Calif. 
"My pleasure cannot be written. These productions have taken time, money and Mr Burb-ink 
Time and money are common stuff, but I have heard of only one Luther Burhunk "—GFOllGF l' 
REDLEIN, care of Tennessee Coal, Iron & R. R. Co., Birmingham, Ala. ' 
"1 find much of practical application to my nursery work, and am convinced that no °reater 
grander and yet simpler explanation of the laws that govern plant life— and also humm or 
animal lile — was ever produced before. Mr. Burbank — the so-called 'Wizard'— and his methods 
are so clearly explained that we wonder in mule astonishment at its simplicitv " L C GAMMII I 
Weiiimka, Okla. ..... . >. 
"The illuslrations are perfect and the text is clear and concise and right to the point and in 
language easily comprehended by anyone."— W. A. IIARSIIBARGER, Department of Mathemalics 
Washburn College, Topeka, Kans. 
"I can hardly conceive of more healthy reading for American citizens. Thev are especiallv 
strong in character lorming and broadening for the young American mind." — ROBERT STEWAR'T 
Real Estate, Superior, Wis. 
"In my earlier years I was a student of lithography, and so can appreciate the beautv and 
elaborate finish of the illustrations, which, by your new process, eclipse all past achievements 
and give greatly added pleasure in illuming the pages of so truly an important and marvelous 
