The Burbank seed book

PLANT BETTER TREES MORE BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS

BURBANK'’S 1919

OFFERING OF TWENTIETH CENTURY

Fruits, Flowers and Various
Economic Plants

The demand for fruit is increasing much faster than its produc-
tion. Make the right start by planting the best or none. Most of
these wonderful new fruits (the best work of forty years, and more
than a hundred thousand dollars) have never before been offered
and probably never will be again by me; I now leave that to others.
They are the best in the world today. You must get them from head-
quarters now or never. They are placed at far lower prices than new
fruits of anything like equal value have ever been offered. It is well
to remember that the fruits which I have been introducing during the
past thirty years have everywhere become standards of superior
excellence in all respects and are fast taking the places of the
best ones which the world had known before. The descriptions
are all underdrawn, not overdrawn. I have always been very careful
in this respect and the great number of those who have become
wealthy by growing them have words of high praise which I have
never given. I raise and introduce these new fruits at a great finan-
cial loss to myself. My reward comes only from the wealth and
satisfaction which they bring to others.

At this date, November 15th, there have been grown and shipped
out of the State of California this season ONE MILLION, ninety-two
thousand, two hundred and fifty-six crates of plums and cherries
alone of varieties which were created on my own grounds, besides
one large shipping firm which could not make a variety report. Need
more be said in regard to the value of my horticultural creations?
Some SEVEN MILLION BUSHELS of Burbank Potatoes were also
grown here this season, and unnumbered carloads of Rhubarb,
Prunes, and other horticultural products can be added for good

measure.
PRICES

The time and expense involved in the production and introduction
of these new fruits and flowers have been great, as those acquainted
with the facts are well aware; it is my aim to place the new varieties
in the hands of growers as quickly as possible and at as low prices
as are consistent with sound business, in at least, partially repaying
for their production and introduction. The expense of properly
packing a tree or plant for safe delivery to my customers is almost
as great as that for packing twenty or a hundred. No charges for
careful packing are made on anything mentioned in this catalogue.

These trees and plants should generally be sent by express, the
safest, cheapest, most rapid, most satisfactory way, as freight is sub-
ject to delays.

NO AGENTS ANYWHERE. All Business Is Done at Santa Rosa.
LUTHER BURBANK

Burbank’s Experiment Farms Santa Rosa, California

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“Quality Counts”

The time, skill, care, and expense required to produce these new fruits
are great, and no patent can be invoked to protect these and others which
have proved to be of such priceless value to growers, carriers, dealers, and
consumers.

Goldridge, about one-half natural size.

“Goldridge’ Apple

*1071. A seedling of the Newtown Pippin, which ripens soon after the Graven-
stein and Baldwin and is in best condition for six months or more. Fruit averages
about as large as apples ever grow and as smooth and perfect as if turned in a
lathe; clear yellow with a faint crimson blush. Quality, for any purpose for which
apples are ever used, surpassingly fine. Has been almost universally pronounced
the “best apple ever produced.” As many of my customers desire to test new fruits
quickly I offer these trees this season on dwarf French paradise roots.

Price, each, 60c; three, $1.50.

Fresno, Cal. The highest flavored and best apple I have ever tasted. Just like a
magnificent specimen of the “Newtown Pippin” but far superior in quality and
appearance. G. C. R.

San Jose, Cal. The “Goldridge” apples are the most perfectly formed apples
I have ever seen; hardly a particle of variation in their shape. The flavor is very
delightful. All pronounce them the very best apples they ever ate. You are cer-
tainly doing wonderful work in producing all of these magnificent varieties.

JUDGE S. F. L.
Red Maiden’s Blush or “Bonita”

240. A new August-September apple of great productiveness. Large, yellow,
heavily striped red like Gravenstein, but the trees are far more productive. Rich
subacid flavor. Especially useful for home use and for drying. Each, 50c;

five, $2; ten, $3.50.
A New Apple—‘“‘Star”’

93. A seedling of the Baldwin; large and of even better quality. Yellow ground
nearly all covered with deep crimson stripes and flakes. Beautiful regular form;
flesh white. In best condition same season as Baldwin here, September 20th to
December. Each, 50c; five, $2; ten, $3.50.

*The number of trees on hand for sale of each variety is given. It will be necessary to ORDER
Harty as the stock of each is limited.

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A New Apple—“Crimson’”’

411. Seedling of the old delicious
“Garden Royal.” Deepest almost black
crimson, slightly striped yellow. One
of the most delicious of all known
apples; rich, mild, tender, fragrant.
Ripe October 1st to November 1st. The
trees astonish all by their heavy bear-
ing qualities. Each, 50c; five, $2.00;
ten, $3.50.

The “Standard” Prune

500. Extremely large, early and by
far the best in quality of all prunes.
A perfect freestone, regular heavy
bearer. Each, 60c; five, $2.50; ten, $4.

“Crimson” Apple, about two-thirds natural size.

Newberg, Oregon. We find the “Standard” prune superior for bearing qualities,
much above the average prune. G. E. W. March 12, 1917.

A New Plum—‘“Inca”

117. A midseason plum of very superior quality for home, market and shipping.
The trees are wonderfully early and constant producers, yearling trees in the
nursery rows often bearing fine large perfect plums. Fruit seven and a half by
eight and a half inches around. Oval, greenish yellow tinged crimson, flesh firm,
yellow, sweet, delicious. Ripens here September 1st to 25th. Great keeper.
Trees each, $2; five, $8; ten, $12.

(74 oD)
Beauty” Plum
216. Well known as the best of all early plums for shipping and none better
for home use. Extremely early, large and unsurpassed in quality. Each, 60c;

five, $2.50; ten, $4.
A New Early Plum—

“Cazique”’

286. Ripens here June 20th
with the earliest plums. Large
round purple; flesh shaded
yellow and crimson like the
well known “Santa Rosa.”
About one week earlier. Sweet
rich delicious flavor. Espe-
cially suited by its extra fine
quality, beauty and produc-
tiveness for shipping and
home use. Each, $3; five, $10;
ten, $15.

A New Plum—
“Valleda”

93. Fruit oval, deepest crim-
son. Five and a half by seven
and a half inches around.

NE ETS SALE Flesh crimson, sweet, rich,
extra fine quality. Freestone. Tree a strong grower, productive. One of the best
shipping home and market plums. Ripe August 1st. Each, $2.50; five, $10; ten, $15.

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New Shipping, Market and Home Plum—“Eldorado”’

368. There has been a great demand among shippers and dealers for a large
black freestone shipping plum of extra quality. At last it has arrived. “Eldorado”
is the largest plum ever seen on this earth. No other plum will keep in fine con-
dition as long, no plum tree is a better grower or yielder. My trees have now been
under close observation for ten years with never a failure of crops. Fruit black
and flat like an apple; flesh firm, pale salmon color. The enormous fruit is fully
colored and in fine shipping condition here with the other early plums and
keeps in best condition nearly one month. Freestone when ripe; quality rich,
sweet, delicious. Most of the shipping plums now grown originated on my own
grounds, millions of crates of which are now shipped East, West, North and South
each season. “Eldorado” should be placed first in value for this purpose. Trees
each, $5; three, $12; ten, $25. Grafting wood in December, January and Feb-
ruary; per foot, $2; per ten feet, $8.

Vacaville, Cal. Your “Eldorado” plum is a wonder and a winner in every mar-
ket. I think it the most remarkable plum of all you have introduced, and the

finest plum in the world. H. A. B. August 5, 1918.
Sebastopol, Cal. The finest plum you have ever produced. No plum on earth
equals it. The largest and finest of all plums. E. A. September 10, 1918.

Healdsburg, Cal. I never tasted such a wonderful plum in all my life.
B. C. Aug. 12, 1918.

“Eldorado” Plum nearly natural size.

A New Hardy Plum—‘“‘Cranberry”’

181. A small brilliant rosy crimson plum, in appearance like a beautiful mam-
moth cherry. About the handsomest of all plums. The fruit is borne in ropes all
over the trees, the crop being simply unbelievable. Fruit one inch in diameter;
flesh pure white and most exquisitely delicious. Ripe October 10th to Novem-
ber 10th, when all markets are out of cherries or plums of any kind. Freestone.
Keeps for weeks. When cooked these have the general appearance and flavor of
the best Michigan cranberries but far superior in every respect. Why grow
expensive cranberries when an enormous and certain crop of far belter quality
can be grown for almost nothing in comparison? The “Cranberry” is without
exception the most productive of all known plums. Millions of these “Cranberry”
trees will be planted as soon as their value is understood. Each, $5; five, $15.

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A New Ornamental Metallic Blackleaf Plum—
The “Thunder Cloud”

(Never Before Offered )

125. No foliage tree ever discovered or produced can compare with this in the
wonderful metallic purple-crimson luster of its foliage. It stands out conspicuous
above all others in its rare combination of beauty of foliage, freedom of growth,
and general effectiveness among other trees and plants. Each, $2; five, $6; ten, $9.

A New Plumcot—The “Silver”

117. A firm, long, oval-flattened, deep silvery purple fruit; deep yellow, juicy,
subacid flesh, almost the exact flavor of finest cranberries, and when cooked the
color, quality, and flavor is the same. Juice like that of strawberries; delightful
for soda fountains. The trees are strong growers and always produce full crops.
The best of its class. Each, $2; five, $6; ten, $9.

A New Plum—‘‘Sachem”’

223. An enormously productive early hybrid plum. Large egg-shaped; purple
color; flesh rich magenta, firm and sweet. Freestone. Tree great grower and
regular bearer. One of the best ever offered for shipping and general market and
home use. Each, $2; five, $6; ten, $9.

San Jose, Cal. Yours are the best trees I have ever had. M. L. B.

An Absolutely New Fruit—The Cathay Quince
“Elephant”’

229. This enormous new type
of fruit is produced in the great-
est abundance even on quite
young trees and will create a
sensation in every market and
every home, good _ specimens
being a foot and a half around
each way. Smooth bright orange,
flesh yellow, turning to a deep
pink when cooked. Unlike all
others of its class it is of superior
quality. More than twenty-five
thousand seedlings of the old,
unique, fragrant but inedible Ca-
thay quinces were tested before
this superb variety appeared.
Grafted trees all exactly true to
type, each, $3; five, $10; ten, $15.

Seedling trees. These greatly
improved ones bear enormous
fragrant fruits. Often, but not al-

“Blephant’ Quince, about one-fourth natural size. ts
These fruits are sometimes six and one-half inches ways of best quality. Each, 50c;
long by four inches across and weigh from one ‘
pound to one and one-half pounds each. ten, $3.

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“Miracle” Chestnut

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Miracle Chestnut.

212. The most wonderful of
all known chestnuts. Bears
heavily the first year and ever
afterwards. Superior very
large sweet chestnuts in great-
est abundance. You do not
have to wait half a lifetime to
get fine chestnuts. Order early,
as I have never been able to
supply the demand for these
trees. Yearling grafted trees,
each, $5; ten, $30.

Seedlings From the
Original “Miracle”
Tree

1000. These vary in size
and in productiveness, some-
times bearing the first and

This “Miracle” Chestnut Tree, although bul nine years

second year, and quite gen- eight months old from the bee of moana eG seed,
5 5 GA. y Pe Pe has borne ten full crops of large, delicious, dark
et ally the third yeal and after- colored chestnuls of finest quality.

wards abundantly. Some of
the one and two year old trees lies flat on the ground with their weight of burrs
well filled with nuts. Each, 40c; ten, $3.

Other Varieties

89. The “Burbank” cherry is now too well known to need special description
except to say that it is the earliest and best early cherry for any purpose, home
market or shipping, bringing the highest prices. Each, 75c; five, $3; ten, $5.

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100. “Giant” cherry. Largest and by far the most productive large cherry
known. Each, 75c; five, $3; ten, $5.

60. I also have a few trees of “Quality” peach, the best flavored of all my
Crawford-Muir hybrids, and my new yellow nectarine, which is enormously pro-
ductive and of superior quality. 60. The new “Sweetest” prune. 25. “Pineapple”
quince. 30. “Van Deman” quince. 60. New Hybrid “Big Productive” pear. Any
of these, $1 each.

“Cardinal” Balloon Berry

A new gigantic raspberry as large as strawberries. Bright red, superior, mild,
delicious flavor. The bush is very ornamental, growing to four or five feet in
height and having strong self-supporting canes. The best of all early berries for
home use. Each, 50c; five, $2; ten, $3.

“Cardinal” Balloon Berries at the right; ordinary raspberries al the left.
Natural size.

A New Himalaya Berry—The “Superb”

The well known “Himalaya” introduced by myself some twenty years ago is
proving to be of inestimable value. Thousands of acres are now in bearing and
it has been found to be the most productive of all berries, as well as the best
keeper, by careful test at one of the United States Experiment Stations. These
facts are so well known that particulars need not be given here. The new berry,
“Superb” is the best result of eighteen more years of the growing and selection
of seedlings, and it is by far the most highly flavored, sweet, and delicious black-
berry grown and is larger and more productive even than the well known “Him-
alaya.” Plants, $1; three, $2.

The Burbank Thornless Blackberries

These thornless blackberries produce when well established, enormous quanti-
ties of firm, extra sweet fruit. The vines are just what all berry growers and
berry pickers have wished for and waited for during the past one hundred years.
The production of new thornless berries has been very expensive of time, thought,
and labor, and I take peculiar pleasure in offering them to growers. No one who
has not worked among them can imagine the sense of perfect security from ugly
wounds which all other blackberries are prepared to inflict. I am still at work
improving them, but am happy to offer two varieties which produce great quan-
tities of large, sweet, luscious fruits. They ripen later in the fall than most berries

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and are unlike the common blackberry which produces a multitude of unnecessary
suckers. These grow only from tips. Both of these here offered are as free from
spines as a silken thread, making them, owing also to their firmness and rare
keeping .qualities, altogether most desirable berries for home use or for market.
“SANTA ROSA,” the earliest of the two, and “SEBASTOPOL,” a few days later and
possibly slightly larger. In very hot, dry climates the berries do not set well.
In all moist climates they are wonderfully productive. Each, 50c; both, 90c;
ten of either or both, $3.

A New Asparagus—“Quality”’

If any more delicious vegetable than crisp, well grown asparagus has been
invented, tell us about it. And yet people who buy it in the markets seldom, if
ever, get the best in its best condition. If you possess half a square rod of ground
almost anywhere under the sun, you can produce a daily supply of this most
healthful vegetable for a family for several months at so little care and expense
that you will have good reason to laugh. Thoroughly fertilize the space allotted,
spade deeply, add more fertilizer and spade again, making the soil rich, deep,
and fine. The bed should be a little raised above the paths when finished. Plant
the young plants four inches under the surface, placing them eighteen inches
to two feet apart. Do not cut the stalks the first season if you desire best results
for the next fifty years, during which with very little care, never-failing crops
will be produced. Many years ago I produced and introduced a new large, white
asparagus, which excelled in flavor all others known. In the passing years since,
even this has been greatly improved and I now for the first time offer this, the best
asparagus ever grown.

“Quality” produces very large, sweet, light-colored stalks which will be a delight
to all who grow or use it. You will find that it is ‘not like other asparagus.”

Yearling plants, ten, 50c; twenty-five, $1; hundred, $2. Select two-year-old
plants, ten, $1; twenty-five, $2; hundred, $4.

Perpetual Rhubarb—Burbank Giant

The standard from which many fortunes have been made originated on my
grounds, and all the “Rhubarb Kings” of California and South Africa have been
produced through this production which has proved of such unusual value. From
$1,500 to $2,500 per acre the first year is claimed by some parties in this State
who have planted it for the Eastern markets. If half as much can be made when
intelligent culture and marketing are combined, the profits would seem to be sufli-
cient. Not suitable for cold climates. Plants direct from the original giant mother
plant, each, 40c; ten, $3; hundred, $12.

Artichoke—Improved Spanish

Enormous crowns. Far superior to the ordinary artichoke. Strong plants,
each, 30c; four, $1.

A New Strawberry—“Exquisite”

A new departure in hybrid strawberries. Unusually vigorous and fairly produc-
tive plant, making just the right quantity of vigorous runners. Fruit large, conical,
sometimes flattened; palest pink when ripe. Very delicious. A berry with a true
wild strawberry flavor for every home. Does best on rather poor sandy soil.
Ten, 50c; twenty-five, $1; hundred, $3.

Longmeadow, Mass. We find your strawberries satisfactory in every way. Every
plant is true to name. C. S. K. & Co. October 15, 1917.

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Evergreen Patagonian
Cherry—“Ciruela”’

The most rapid growing and
most productive of all cherries;
lumber greatly prized for furniture.
Very ornamental, symmetrical up-
right grower, bearing enormous
long clusters of fruit about one-
half inch in diameter. Fruit some-
thing like Prunus serotina but far
sweeter. Especially valuable for
drying. Each, 25c; ten, $1.50; 100,
$10; 1000, $60.

New Everbearing Straw-
berry—‘“‘Perpetual”

The most delicious and constantly
productive berry of this new class.
Medium sized berries, oval, light
crimson. A most persistent bearer
of the best fruit all the time. These
plants are multiplied mostly by di-
vision, as they make few runners.
Each, 40c; five, $1.50; ten, $2.

New Everbearing Straw-
berry—“Giant”’

The largest bush and largest ber-
ries of this class. Medium early,
very large bright red berries of ex-
cellent subacid quality. Each, 30c;
five, $1; ten, $1.75.

Mountain Ash—Special
Selected

Medium sized tree bearing great
drooping clusters of bright scarlet
berries. Very much more ornamen-
tal even than the common varieties,
all of which are beautiful. One
year, two to four feet, each, 50c;
ten, $3.

Shasta Daisy—‘‘Alaska”

“Ciruela” Cherry, showing enormous bearing qualily
This branch was about two feel long; fruit
about four or five times larger.

The true “Alaska” has never been surpassed in size, beauty, and abundance of
flowers. From divisions of my original stock, each, 25c; ten, $1; hundred, $5.

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Improved Pawpaw

The Pawpaw is one of the most promising fruits for California. The improved
Pawpaw is large and exceedingly delicious; in form like a banana, growing in
clusters of three to six each. Trees bear as early as ordinary orchard trees and
should be extensively planted, especially for home use. Young plants from a large
fruiting very superior market variety: Each, 50c; three, $1.25; five, $2; ten, $3.50.

Improved Pawpaws grown at my Sebastopol place.

New Everblooming Poppy

Several years ago I succeeded in crossing the Oriental (perennial) poppy with
the Peony flowering (annual) poppy. The result was a strain of single perennial
everblooming poppies bearing enormous flowers on long stems, of various shades
of scarlet, crimson and orange. Unlike all other poppies, these bloom all the time
throughout the year in this climate and may perhaps be hardy in severe climates.

Field grown roots, each, 40c; three, 90c; five, $1.25.

Burbank Gladiolus

One hundred thousand absolutely new varieties of about every form and color
ever produced from this wonderfully variable plant, including scarlet, crimson,
yellow, blue, purple, lavender, orange, salmon, and pink, with infinitely varied
combinations of rainbow colors. Such a mass of brilliant colors can not be
produced at many times the cost of these in any other flower. Last season people

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came in multitudes to look over the fence in admiration of these very ones here
offered. Not an old one in the whole lot. All Burbank productions. Bulbs, each,
25c; ten, $1; hundred, $8; thousand, $50.

New Gladiolus—‘“Elora”’

Height, three and one-half feet; great bloomer, even from the smallest bulbs;
slender blue green foliage; long, full truss; flowers produced in greatest abun-
dance, four and a half to five inches across; WHITE suffused with pale violet;
yellow throat with dainty crimson featherings; very striking. Multiplies with
great rapidity. Unequaled in health and vigor. It is destined to be the forerunner
of a new race. Bulbs, each, 50c; ten, $2; hundred, $15.

Gladiolus bulbs can be planted at any time of the year, when most convenient to
the planter, in all climates where the ground does not freeze over three inches in
depth; in colder climates, all Spring and early Summer; and, if planted in suc-
cession, will yield a wealth of blooms which no other flower can surpass in abun-
dance, beauty, variety, or ease of culture.

Plant six inches deep and two to six inches apart each way in beds, or two to
six inches apart in rows, which may be one to four feet apart.

A New Hybrid Hemerocallis—The “Burbank”

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The ‘Lemon Lily,” though bearing a small flower, has been considered one of
the best until recently the “Grandiflora Aurantiaca Major” was introduced. And
now comes a new one, the “Burbank,” which in combination of size, great beauty
of form and color of the flowers, and their amazing abundance and perpetual pro-
duction, has never been equaled—a new form. Height, twelve to eighteen inches.
Every little plant blooms abundantly from the first; the flowers open wide and
flat, not irregular and tubular like all those heretofore known; flowers five to six
inches across; purest sparkling pale-lemon yellow throughout. Increases rapidly.
Each, 75c; three, $2.

A New Hybrid Hemerocallis—“Calypso”’

The flowers of “Calypso” resemble big pure lemon-yellow lilies, and can be
produced anywhere, while the true lilies are not easily grown. The flowers
are produced nearly all the season; the petals are revolute like the true Hllies;
height, three feet. Each, 40c; three, $1.

Newest Cannas

Cannas are too well known to need general description. These new kinds are
wonderful in size and freedom of bloom and abundance and beauty of color.
California-grown Cannas very far surpass in vigor those grown in colder climates
(where they have to be stored to avoid freezing), producing larger and healthier
plants and blooming earlier and more abundantly. No other flower produces such
a grand effect with so little care.

“Tarrytown”

The best of my crimson seedlings. Height, four feet. It is well known that no
Canna surpasses this triple truss, pure crimson Canna in brilliance of color and
freedom of bloom. It sends out truss after truss of flowers from Spring to frost;
a veritable mass of crimson. Height three feet. Each, 30c; four, $1; ten, $2;
hundred, $12.

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Canna—‘“‘Burbank”’

This is now well known and prized everywhere for its giant, pure yellow
flowers and broad, thick, dark-green foliage. Height, three feet; each, 20c; four,
75c; ten, $3; hundred, $12.

Canna—“Wintzer’s Giant”

The largest Canna ever grown. The deep crimson flowers are six to seven
inches across. Free bloomer. Height, five feet. Each, 25c; four, $1; ten, $2;

hundred, $12.
Canna—‘“‘Firebird”’

One of the finest of all the Cannas. Enormous seven-inch cardinal scarlet
flowers. Early and abundant bloomer. Height, four feet. Each, 30c; four, $1;
ten, $2.

Canna—‘‘King Humbert”’

Deep brown crimson foliage; enormous bright orange scarlet flowers. Height,
five feet. Each, 25c; four, 80c; ten, $1.50; hundred, $12.

Canna—“Yellow King Humbert’

Foliage green. Enormous clear lemon yellow flowers brightly spotted with crim-
son. Height, four feet. Each, 30c; four, $1; ten, $2.

Hybrid Amaryllis

Seedlings from the largest and finest type in existence. Each, 25c; five, $1;
ten, $1.50.

Akebia Quinata

Hardy deciduous climbing vine; fragrant white flowers and edible fruit, in
appearance like a very small banana. Each, 50c; four, $1.50.

Isemena Calathina

This unique and beautiful flowering bulbous plant from the mountains of Peru
belongs to the Amaryllis family, but is much more easily raised. The large pearly
white flowers are among the most unique and handsomest of bulbous plants. Plant
out of doors in California. Large field-grown bulbs, each, 30c; ten, $2.

New Hybrid Crinums

The Crinums have flowers and bulbs somewhat resembling the Amaryllis. Many
of the best species are tropical and can not, therefore, be grown where heavy
frosts occur. Some twenty-five years ago my own work with the Crinums com-

menced, and from this work new, beautiful, and more hardy varieties have been
produced.

The bulbs of all those here offered will thrive outdoors throughout most of Cali-
fornia and similar climates, and anywhere if taken up in the Fall and kept dry
through the Winter. Flowers very large, like Amaryllis, mostly purest white and
pale rose; often fragrant. Beautiful new hybrids. Enormous bulbs weighing five
lo seven pounds. Each, $2; ten, $15. Vigorous offsets, each, 50c; ten, $3.50.

A New Tritoma—“Exquisite”’

A most beautiful new dwarf, almost ever-blooming Tritoma, bearing yellow
flowers, shaded crimson, in unusual abundance. Each, 50c; ten, $3.

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Acanthus Mollis Latifolia

One of the most striking, rapid growing, and most decorative of all perennial
garden and park plants. Gigantic, glossy, crenate leaves in abundance. Height,
three to four feet. Improves in beauty and effectiveness from year to year. Rare.
Fine field-grown plants, each, 75c; two, $1; five, $3.

A New Agapanthus (Cape Colony Lily)
Agapanthus Albo Gigantea

A new gigantic Agapanthus, bearing immense heads of snow-white flowers on
strong stems, nearly four feet in height. The flowers last for two or three months
and have a most unusual decorative value. A distinct new florists’ flower which
will become popular everywhere. Never before offered. Strong field-grown
divided roots. Each, $2; two, $3.

The “Square” Plant—(Silphium Grandiflorum )

A greatly improved variety of a native, hardy, easily grown, perennial grow-
ing four to six feet in height and very much resembling a sunflower except that
the stalks are sharply square instead of round. The flowers are yellow and about
four inches across. Well grown stalks make light and unique square canes.

French White Tuberous Artichoke

Hardy; enormously productive. Tubers, per pound, 40c; ten pounds, $1.

Where these Trees and Plants are grown.

BURBANK’S 1919 FRUITS, FLOWERS AND PLANTS

BURBANK’S 1919 FRUITS, FLOWERS AND PLANTS 15

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 cuarms:

By placing ourselves in harmony and co-operation 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.

“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.

“T 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, Ill.

“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.”—Ballimore ‘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 Board of Trade, and the guest of honor surprised nal
deeply interested the large company present by devoting most of his adress to
coming biological improvements in the race of Americans.’——“The Dalles,” Rone
land, 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 vat
a sensational book, but it is so suggestive and inspiring that it should aah as an
epoch-making litthe volume.’—‘‘Post,” Houston, Texas. :

16 BURBANK’S 1919 FRUITS, FLOWERS AND PLANTS

“The 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 mixture of
Briton, Roman, Saxon, Dane and Norman-French, when transplanted to America
met even in Colonial days the Dutch, the French and the Swede.”—“Journal,”’
Minneapolis, Minn.

“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 rare privi-
lege to read. It contains information and ideas which no American can afford
to be without—ideas which bring with them an inspiration and an aspiration.
The book will make its most direct appeal to parents and teachers, but every boy
and girl, every man and woman will find in it a message for himself.’—‘‘House-
keeper.”

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
unfit, and discusses at length heredity, predestination, training, growth, environ-
ment, and character. The fundamental principles of education, Mr. Burbank
declares, should be the subject of earnest scientific investigation including all the
causes which tend TO PRODUCE MEN AND WOMEN WITH SANE, WELL-
BALANCED CHARACTERS.

THE CENTURY CO.

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These and twenty million other little folks thrive on Burbank fruils, nuts, vegetables and flowers.