The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-08-10
LUTHER BURBANKs WORK.

LUTHER BURBANKfS WORK.
The current Popular Science has an In
terestirg article on the work that Lu-
Their Burbank is doing in California, in
the creation and improving of fruit ana
flowers.
He is a wizard in his profession. He
marries a mulberry to a raspberry ana
the progeny is a fruit that is superior TO
either parent. He takes a prune ana
manipulate. it with the result that the
new species is vast superior 10 the
oil and is pitless. He takes the lilies
ar1 10 the result is a new order OF lily
compared with VIII CHI Solomon in al his
CORY would lock as though ne had moth
ing on but pajamas. He takes the Cal
iroinia apple, and while not especially
in proving it's flavor. gives it a so id ,
VII en- makes possible the packing of thu
f1uit and the sending Of it to Europe.
The miracles he performs are endless
All up n down the coast grows a wild
DtdLu ~ u4n ~ - WI NiANoS IA ASoS~At
but it grows on the most sterile points
and cares no more for water than did
Major Nounon in the old days. But Oh
this ne is grating a valuable pun, De-
iieving that his work viii eyentuate In
producing a new plum that viii. grow in
barren soil and produce real fruit. 1e
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faces from the desert cactus (dehorning
1t, so to speak, and looks forward to a
time when the cattle on the desert viii
exult in .uxuriant food. His hobby IL
heredlty, his thought being that there
are germs of good In the most worthless
Of plants, but that by a proper bleno ng
the yagrant features can be breo out
and something beautiful or useful be
produced. This is a thought which NOR
ness.
But note his way OF working. He is
struggling for a result. To accomplish it
he gathers all the pants OF the same
species. no matter how remote, and
CRAFTS them. Often he has $1,000 or
these. lie notices the result. Out OF
the $1,000 he selects five or six that come
nearest to the realization OF his ideas,
and all the rest are torn up and burned.
Then he proceeds with his experiments
on the few selected. ard of these saves
perhaps one or two, and the others are
burned. In his garden he has 30O.0 900 va
rieties OF plums or prunes. He has pro-
duced one called the Fleming prune. Ii
is as big and round as a big peach. He
has produced a wonderful flower that
when It first b ooms is a g orious red
but which gradually fades Until it is
snow white. His thought is to give to
the world better fruit and to fiji the
gardens Of the land with new and un-
eomparab.y beautiful, lowers.
His Whole life liz absorbed In the de-
lightful work. He works necessarily.
and when a new bloom or a new fruir
materializes he knows how Watt IL |
when he heard the first respiration or
the first steam engine: how Edison fe.t
when the first still small voice came TO
him through the telephone; how co.um-
bus felt on that black night when, from
the masthead Of the little Pinto there
rang down the cry: "A light. a ligltr,
His life ought to be a great examp'e
to men. An intense desire for good n
steady work can I'LL a life with happ :
ness when the world outside turns only
harsh corners to a strugg ing soul.
There are new fruits to be created IN
all the words fields. new flowers car,
be made to bloom everywhere that an