BURBANK'S 1919 NEW CREATIONS IN SEEDS 
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This plant has been under cultivation and close observation on my farms for 
ten years or more and has been greatly improved by selection; a more delicious 
breakfast food was never offered to America. The plants are grown with the least 
possible care, like other grains or like corn, and will produce a great weight of 
seed per acre, thirty bushels or more, but in some localities is subject to the attack 
of aphides, which, if they should happen to appear, may be readily exterminated 
by the usual sprays used for aphis. 
By sowing the seeds early around the edges of fields and gardens, or in fields 
like corn or wheat, a good supply may be raised anywhere in almost any climate. 
The seed, when dry, is prepared directly for food simply by pounding a few 
minutes in a sack to remove the outer husk, then it is rinsed and cooked two hours 
or more, and is also ground and used for bread and cakes. Everybody likes it. 
Everybody thrives on it. Everybody should raise it. 
Burbank Selection White Quinoa Seed, per packet, 20c; three, 50c; six, 80c; 
ounce, $1. 
Lovett, Ga., May 10, 1918. I planted a little package of your Improved "Quinoa" 
seed and am surprised at the heavy crop produced. Believe it will more than 
double the crops of any of the cereals. The plants are simply laden with seed 
heads which are now rapidly ripening. I feel that the crop from the little package 
will give me at least half a bushel of clean seed. An acre at this rate would run 
from seventy to eighty bushels of clean seed. J. P. M. 
A New Flax— The "Burbank" 
The United States of America produces an average of thirty-three million dollars 
worth of flax seed annually. Its uses are too well known and too numerous to 
mention. Some ten years ago a company of French artists urgently requested me 
to produce a flax which would make a natural limpid 
white oil, as the clear colors of their pictures were 
blurred and deadened by the oils which they were 
obliged to use. From a small sample of seeds from 
sample flax seeds some light brown East Indian flax which they had 
Commencing at the left is obtained, and which reverted to the original dark for 
Siberian flax; second, Amen- , T . „ . . , , 
can; third, French jaune several years, I have now to offer the most remarkable 
Russian ° P " kof ^s^xtil'^usS flax ever Produced. The seeds of the "Burbank" are of 
flax Perial ' last ' Ea ^ In( ^ ian nearly double the size of any other, are of a beautiful 
limpid while, and yield twelve per cent more oil per 
pound of seed. The oil is more readily extracted and with less waste. The plants 
are fully as productive as the ordinary flax. The "Burbank" Flax is now offered 
for the first time and 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. 
Per packet of 100 seeds, 25c; ounce, $1; pound, $6. 
New Rainbow Chard or Asparagus Beet 
By crossing the improved Swiss Chard 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 broad, succulent stalks and 
leaves exhibit a mingling of wonderful iridescent rainbow shades. The leaves are 
deeply crimped and pitted like the Savoy cabbage. 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. 
San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 3, 1918. From your Rainbow Chard seed we have been 
using the greens for my chickens. It has large, tender leaves, which I have been 
taking from these plants all Summer, and they have not yet started to send up 
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