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BURBANK'S 1921 NEW CREATIONS IN SEEDS 
The Training of the Human Plant 
By LUTHER BURBANK 
Dedicated to the Twenty Million Public School Children of America 
and to the Untold Millions Under Other Skies 
A book, primarily, for every parent and every teacher, but, also, 
A book to be read by every thinking man and woman. 
It is a prophecy of the finest race the world has ever known. 
It is a startling presentation of the possibilities of the ideal in character. 
It is a plea for an heredity, environment, and training which shall realize here 
and now the ideal. 
LUTHER BURBANK claims : 
By placing ourselves in harmony and cooperation with the main high poten- 
tial lines of human progress and welfare we receive the benefit of strong magnetic 
induction currents. 
We are now standing upon the threshold of new methods and new discoveries 
which shall give us imperial dominion. 
"Did you ever think what is the most pliable and the most precious product of 
all the ages? It is not pigs, mules, books or locomotives, cotton or corn — but 
children. Children can not all be treated alike; each has his or her special indi- 
viduality, which is the most valuable of all endowments. If all were alike no 
progress could be made, and right here comes the weakest point in the present 
educational systems." 
"Luther Burbank is unquestionably the greatest student of life and philosophy 
of living things, in America if not in the world." — S. H. Comings, Corresponding 
Secretary American League of Industrial Education. 
"I know of no work and of no literature which confirms my interpretation of 
true heredity as do yours." — E. R. Moras, M. D. (author), Chicago, III. 
"Luther Burbank turns out more new fruits than words, which isn't altogether 
a bad thing to do for a man whose work and joy it is to do precisely that. And so 
no wonder he has written a little book overflowing with love for children, with 
earnest hopes and advice and almost passionate impatience — if so sweet-tempered 
and quiet a man as Burbank can be passionately impatient — concerning their 
upbringing." — "Independent," New York City. 
"The immediate book that is unconsciously imbued with the best Fourth of July 
spirit, and which touches the nerve of true patriotism at its roots, is Luther Bur- 
bank's 'The Training of the Human Plant.' Mr. Burbank's clear and simple work, 
however, is but another evidence that they who creep closest to the heart of 
Nature return in theory and practice to a recognition of the all-governing, divine 
and universal law." — Baltimore "News." 
"It must yet make the average reader pause and wonder, if, after all, this man 
who lives on such intimate terms with Nature, isn't better able to describe her 
processes and their results in regard to the human race than the man who merely 
contemplates her from the safe distance of a book-lined study." — "States," New 
Orleans. 
"A banquet was recently given to Luther Burbank, the wizard of new fruits and 
flowers, by the California State Board of Trade, and the guest of honor surprised 
and deeply interested the large company present by devoting most of his address 
to coming biological improvements in the race of Americans." — "The Dalles," 
Portland, Oregon. 
"His new 'The Training of the Human Plant,' is the fruit of years of study, of 
experimenting, of observation, and of earnest aspiring thought and work. It is not 
a sensational book, but it is so suggestive and inspiring that it should prove an 
epoch-making little volume." — "Post," Houston, Texas. 
Salinas, Kans., March 17, 1919. — "The Training of the Human Plant" is the finest piece of 
literary work and the most distinctly unique of anything that 1 ever read. It offers a world of 
thought and food for the mind. I expect to present two more copies to schools — little folks will 
enjoy them as well as profit by the reading. 
