The San Francisco call., 1899-02-12

entirely to him. The varieties of un-
usual color, great productiveness and
unique favors, never known among
berries before, are the result Of Mr..
Burbank's successful grating. A
blackberry dazzling white in color, but
with all the other attributes Of the
usual blackberry, is one of his feats.
WaInuts and chestnuts under Mr..
Burbank's care have lost some Of their
time traits that made them unde-
sirable. Chestnut trees usually take
from two until six years before they
bear. But q chestnut which Mr.. Bur-
bank has evolved and sold to an East
ern firm bears the very first year from
the gratis. Ripe nuts were found all
along the nursery road in the fall from
gratis planted in the spring. A hand
somer walnut tree than any grown
heretofore, and a more productive one
than was formerly In existence, go TO
make up his long nst OF successes III
the nut line.
The ounce, although 1t can be grown
with less expense than any other fruit,
has never been grown to any extent.
A ounce is a ounce the world over
tart, hard and limited in its uSefuI-
ness. 1t takes hours to cook 1T tender.
But Luther Burbank, after years or
experimenting, has given to California
a new ounce called the pineapple
ounce It is soft and mellow, with the
most delicious pineapple flavor. S. +.
Leib, the celebrated Santa Clara or
chardist, says: 1.-The jelly which my
wife made from the pineapple ounce
was the finest favored jelly of any de-
scription or from any fruit which
ever ate in my life"
The pineapple ounce Will cook tender
in less than five minutes, is .denclous
baked, and is a delightful fruit TO eat
green. This ounce will soon be grow
III j. Low
only in California, but wherever fruit
is grown.
A special edition could be filed with
the marvellous results Mr.. Burbank has
accomplished with plums The Bur
bank plum, which revolutiontzed the
American plum trade, is but one Of sew
eral remarkable successes.
Three years ago Mr.. Burbank sent.
out the Wickson plum, named after
Professor Wickson Of the University OF
California. 1t is called the king or
plums, and is the largest plum known
in the world and of extra quality. Last
summer the Wickson plum sold for
IS 55 a box, other varieties of plums
varying in price from 40 cents to 81 30
This year the first fruit of the Climax
plum will be offered for public use. The
Climax lives up to It's name. 1t is even
more remarkable than the Wickson. 1t
Ilp6uS UcIS elDO0l ~ NAJ A-t
other good plum, nearly month be-
fore the Wickson, and is just as de-
licious as the King Of Plums.
But the remarkable, almost startling,
fact about the Climax is, that 1t. has
a strong perfume as delicious as that
of the sweetest scented flower. People
who saw 1t last summer say that
whole house Is perfumed with a. single
fruit.
The Bartlett plum is Mr.. Burbank's
latest success. 1t tastes exactly IKE
q Bartlett pear, only it is better than
the best Bartlett year that ever grew, rev:
In twenty-five years Mr.. Burbank
has done twenty-five times as much as
most workers in his line accomplish
in a lifetime Yet this wizard Of hor-
ticulture works on most natural lines.
Education" is the potent factor
human beings, respond to educative
forces. He gives them new enyiron>
ments. more sunshine, an abundance OF :
room, and, like human beings, slowly
their new surroundings affect thelr
growth In a few generations new
type is created. Not alone by cross
ing, but by this educative process does
he effect such great changes in. plant
lust as in human beings, there is a
great difference in the mobility of diff
ferent families Of plants. Some are
receptive, some OBSTINATE. buC dS d
rule flowers and fruits are very grate-
full and lend themselves easily to the
educative process.
Mr.. Burbank. like the great savants
and masters whom he has followed and
surna ssed, is himself true child of
na+i1re. His work lies not alone along
dusty bookshelves, but out under tha
bIue sky. And with ears constantly at
tuned to natures teachings he has
caught some Of her sunshine and SIM
pncity.
which Mr.. Burbank has received for
various fruits and flowers, his bank ac-
count is not a long one. For to pursue
his research requires unlimited means.
And often the originator receives but
a fraction of the gold that accrues to
the distributor.
But Luther Burbank is satisfied. For
wherever there are orchards and con-
servatories, from California to Cairo,
there is found living testimony to the
good he has wrought for humanity.
There is a bridge in Germany where
toll is charged on everything that passes
over it, and bicycles are liable to the. i'm
post under the description Of small cat
tie with driver or attendant"