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Identifier: lutherburbanksbo00binn (find matches)
Title: Luther Burbank's bounties from nature to man
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: (Binner, Oscar E., co., Chicago) (from old catalog)
Subjects: Burbank, Luther, 1849- (from old catalog)
Publisher: (Chicago, Oscar E. Binner co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Winter Rhubarb is abundantly ready for the marketfully six months earlier than other rhubarb. It hasthe soft and pleasant taste of berries, increases aboutten times as fast as the old coarse kinds, and willyield $1000 an acre the first year after planting. Cactus One of Burbanks most wonderful achievements isthe thornless Cactus. In this he has not only pro-vided a vast reservoir of food for man and millions ofbeasts of the field, but he has made possible the rec-lamation of nearly three billion acres of desert. TheBurbank Cactus Pear is as juicy as the ripest Water-melon and the flavor as delicious as a pineapple orBartlett pear. The Cactus plant itself is an excellentfood for animals, and its enormous yield per acre pro-vides a large quantity of fermentable material for theproduction of denatured alcohol. South Dakota No one appreciatesmore than the writerthe immense extent ofMr. Burbanks laborsin the improvementof fruits. —Prof. N. E. Hansen,South Dakota Agrricultural College. 19
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BURBANK ROSE.—The judges at the St. Louis Exposition placed it in a class of itsown for beauty and unusual qualities, and awarded Mr. Burbank a Special Gold Medal. Appreciation The honesty of Darwin, his love of nature, his reverence for truth, themodesty of his claims, set him apart as the High Priest of Science. In all therealm of physical research, Darwin seemed to have but one compeer, andthat was Aristotle. Now^ theres a trinity, for Luther Burbank is one of these.He is a citizen of the Celestial City of Fine Minds. The most beautiful wordsI heard him utter w^ere these: I do not know^. He makes no effort toexplain things he does not understand. He lives out his life in the light.The land that produces beautiful flow^ers and luscious fruits w^ill also producenoble men and women, said Aristotle. Also in producing beautiful flowersand luscious fruits men and w^omen become noble. The finest product ofthe life and work of Luther Burbank is Luther Burbank. —Elbert Hubbard in the Ph

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