THE FODDER PLANT FOR ARID REGIONS. 
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The NewOpuntias 
Now Offered for the First Time 
ALL PRODUCTIONS OF BURBANK’S EXPERIMENTAL FARM. 
PART THREE. 
New Creations in Opuntias. 
L have no time and no desire to introduce these or any other Opuntias and would gladly 
leave the matter to some one else but so much has been written about them that it seems 
necessary to have them distributed direct from my own grounds, under my own descrip¬ 
tions so as to avoid as much as possible any misunderstandings, exaggerations or misstate¬ 
ments. 
These have all been 'produced on my own grounds. No person on earth has a plant or 
a cutting of any of these, except five cuttings, one each of the new “ Santa Rosa,” “Sonoma,” 
“California,” “ Fresno” and “Chico” which are now being sent to Australia for sale ex¬ 
clusively in the Southern Hemisphere: and yet so-called “ Burbank’s Thornless Cactus” 
has been offered for sale by dishonest parties for two years or more in many of the large 
cities of both hemispheres. 
In producing these new Opuntias many years and much thought, labor and capital 
have been expended, thousands of crosses have been made and many thousand seedlings 
raised. The finished product will receive a royal welcome everywhere by those who know. 
No cuttings and no plants of those described in Part Third will be disposed of at any 
price before September first, except that the whole, or not less than one-half interest, in¬ 
cluding half the stock of any of these new ones will be sold at the prices mentioned. After 
September first if any variety remains unsold cuttings and plants can be supplied. 
The analvses given below are by Prof. M. E. Jaffa of the State University. 
“SANTA ROSA” (Ft cus indica class). 
This new creation in Opuntias is a strong, compact grower, producing joints (leaves 
or slabs) more rapidly than any other in my whole collection whether new or old, wild 
or cultivated, spiny or so-called spineless. The fat dark green slabs are often two leet long 
by ten inches wide, smooth and with no thorns and no bristles. The first of its kind. The 
original plant is only three years old this spring from a seed and yet it is six leet high, six 
and a half feet across, has now forty-four large slabs and twenty-six have been removed, 
all of which are now growing plants, besides one sacrificed for the analysis given below. 
A most remarkable three years’ growth from one seed. The leaves are rapidly increasing 
in size each season. One leaf of this with the right to sell in the Southern Hemisphere 
including all of Africa has been sold to Mr. John M. Rutland of Melbourne, Australia, for 
one thousand dollars. The number of plants on hand by September 1st, 1907 should be 
about four to six hundred. 
Price for the complete stock before September 1, 1907, $10,000. 
Analysis.—Water, per cent 94.70; Ash .96; Protein .66; Crude Fiber .75; Starch,etc. 
2.88: Fat .05. 
