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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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es of Plums and Prunes, and some of themnotably the Gold, Wickson, Apple, October, Purple,Chalco, American and Climax Plums, and the Splen-dor and Sugar Prunes are the best known and themost successful kinds now grown. In addition he hasproduced a stoneless Plum, and has created the Plum-cot by crossing the Japanese Plum with the Apricot. The Bartlett Plum is a cross of the bitter ChineseSimoni and the Delaware, a Burbank product, andhas the exact fragrance and flavor of the Bartlett pear.The Climax Plum is a cross of the Simoni and the California Every thought ofhis is charged withphilanthropy, thefurnishing of greaterbeauty or richer sus-tenance at lower costto the human race.—E. J. Wickson,DeanUniversity of California. Chicago Luther Burbank inhis work stands forthin the world alone.He is scientist, in-ventor, discoverer,the Edison of plantlife, a disciple of Dar-win in the evolutionof plants and a masterworkman in the learn-ing of his craft.—Hamilton Wright,The World Today. 15
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ROYAL BLACK WALNUT.—Specimen finished by SchoUe Furniture Co., 222Wabash Ave., Chicago. It resembles tropical mahogany, and is as hard as theold-fashioned Black Walnut, but has a finer grain and takes a higher finish.Owing to the scarcity of Black Walnut, this wood is worth from $200 to $700per 1,000 feet, board measure. Will grow anywhere and produce about $3,000 oflumber to the acre within 12 years after planting. 16 Fruit—continued Japanese Triflora. The Chinese Simoni produces al-most no pollen, but few grains of it ever having beenobtained, but these few have enabled Burbank to re-volutionize the whole plum shipping industry. Burbank has originated and introduced the VanDeman, Santa Rosa, Alfa, Pineapple, Number Eighty,Flowering Dazzle and other Quinces; the OpulentPeach and the Winterstein Apple. Berries His experimentation with berries extended through30 years of constant attention, and has resulted in theintroduction of a score of new commercial varieties ofdewberries, bla

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