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Title: Half-hour experiments with plants
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Burbank, Luther, 1849-1926
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rst aroundthe thick bark of the stocky and later^ as the wax on thebrush cools^ on and about the cuts and open joints^ no harmwill result. The plan of brushing the hot wax about thegraft, instead of applying it by the fingers in the tediousold-fashioned way saves nine-tenths of ones time^ and doesfar better work than could ever be done by the old method. If the wax should prove to be too soft and sticky^ as issometimes the case in very warm weather, melt it overagain with more resin added. If too brittle, add a littlemore linseed oil so as to bring it to the right consistency tospread well, and at the same time *set well on cooling.It gives the most satisfactory results when about the con-sistency of ordinary chewing gum. —Luther Burbank. (Vol. II, p. 309-322) An Apple Graft One Year Old As evidence of the success of Mr. Burhomh^smethods in producing quick results, the applegraft illustrated on the opposite page, shown infull hearing after only one years growth, speakseloquently. 14
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When Burbank Was Justa Beginner THE picturesque New England town of Lancaster^Massachusetts, was a rendezvous for ministers, lec-turers^ and teachers^ and was charged to an unusual degreewith intellectual activity. Into this environment, March 7.1849^ was born Luther Burbank^. the thirteenth child ofOlive Ross and Samuel Walton Burbank. Luther was a quiet, serious child, whose most noticeabletrait was a love for flowers that amounted almost to rev-erence. From his earliest boyhood he studied plants, trees,fruits., garden vegetables—in fact, everything that grewfrom the earth. But plants did not demand his entire attention. He re-ceived an excellent fundamental education at LancasterAcademy^ took great interest in chemistry and mechanics^learned the useful trade of carpentry, and for a timeworked in a factory near his home. At twenty years ofage. Burbank decided that a physicians profession wouldbe most congenial as a life work, and began the study ofmedicine. However^, the death of

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