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.1,'"??® analogy is fascinating, as he presents it in his article on the 'Training of 
the Human Plant.' Our parent Anglo-Saxon stock, itself a successful mii?i?f of 
Briton, Roman, Saxon, Dane and r^orman-French, when transplanted tTimeriCa 
Minn7a7oUs, MnT ^'"^^ ^"'""^ ^he sVedl/^-JoS'rni 
"Luther Burbank, who knows more about plant life than anyone in the world 
has written an essay on the training of the human plant, which it is a rareTrivi- 
ege to read. It contains information and ideas which no American can affoTd 
to be withou — Ideas which bring with them an inspiration and an aspiration 
The book will make its most direct appeal to parents and teachers, but e^iry boy 
k^fpf/'' ^'^^'^^ woman will find in it a message for himself."— "7/o«se- 
He demands for the child of the race— most sensitive of living things— first and 
foremost an heredity and environment of love; differentiation in training, sun- 
shine, good air, and nourishing food. He condemns the marriage of the physically 
unht and discusses at length heredity, predestination, training, growthT environ- 
ment, and character The fundamental principles of education, Mr. Burbank 
declares, should be the subject of earnest scientific investigation including all the 
b71aNCED%ARAC^^^^^ ^OMENWITH SANE,^WE^^^^^^ 
makes children the most interesting study in the world to me. In reading your book I found it 
^"t^J^o+'^^n c'^" ^^P^i^^ff- ^•^■''^^ ?^ I ^""^ touched a "live wire." You did not send 
out that S. O. S. for the children in vain. Don't stop writing books. Mrs. W. E. Peacock. 
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. $1.04 postpaid. 
These and twenty million other little folks thrive on Burbank fruits, nuts, vegetables and flowers. 
