Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-07-11
SIXTY YEARS WITH PLANTS.
An Amazing Story Of the Worlds
Ind. difference
C-uthor Burbank in the Dearborn
independently

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| C-uthca Burbank in the Dearborn
| independently
FER sixty years my chief work has
! been the development OF PLANTS. The
cumulative eject of this work is now
apparent. | now have more ex1 cri-
me1t5 under way than ever before
about 3,O00--and am now PRODUCING
more new ana improved varieties in a
/ day than ! used to produces IN twenty
years. The average is at least 1000
a Year Of better forms OF lapt lite
tbGn ever before existed. I1le new
creations include traits, flowers,
vegetables, nuts. Grams ana trees.
But this measure eli Success IS not
without ifs WcAl2ao.y aspect. Mos.
Of these improved varieties are go
td2 TO waste and II is not unlikely
that t1ey VII be Wholly lost. The
! world Is unable to absorb what We
I produce as ralldiy as We produce it.
! 1t IS not That the human race does
not 2ead these superior forms CT
! plant IL. It needs them very much.
Eat The world moves slowly, weighed
! down as it is vita u great leth2rgy-
| great inertia. II is much more d.f-
| teult to introduce an improved f0rm
| $1,000
At The height OF the growing an /
! fiIehlh@ season. sometimes as many
! as forty superior varieties are toun
ON our farms III Qay--better fruits,
| grams, nuts, vegetables OF lowers
thah ever existed before on this
| earth, some OF them the products OF
| eAFeIiahcht5 'h]t nave p1lA gong on
| AoL luii'E years
| what can we 10 with them? The
| only way tDcJ can be introduced II
| Tie Fdpilc Is thfodSh sceusmen an |
nursery men, mo scotsman or nursery
! man wants more than Two or thro9
! new plants a year. recall mat one
oe&leI TOOK tea new varieties one
year. pat THIS IS very unusual Al
| any F@le' we can put out through
Hedi afS olly small Tra2tlon OF our
froHNct. 1hey assert mat 1t dtsor-
an'zeS tler bus ness to take more.
what becomes OF the remainder?
II Stays on our farms, unused AMI
Unknown to the pubic. / have thir~
! teen acres OF land at Sebastopol.
calllorllla, mat would be worth to
the world billion dollars an acre il
4 ali OF the new creations upon this
land were introduced to the worl |
anu tNAt ~ uoS. fi<tu SlhlGSR dcTGS
at Sebastopoi until ! sold three acres
few months ago. 1t was sold to a
cemetery association and every plant
on it is being pulled up and burne |
so that the tract may be plotted for
graves. Among the thousands of
new and improved varieties on this
little three tract were more than
forty pew selected thornless black
berries that would have been worth
$50 900 if they had been Introduce
to the world. In addition, there
were some thirty yarieties OF new
hybrid roses from a selection Of sew.
eral thousands, choice collector
of some forty varieties of louuars. g
large number of new apples, chest
nuts. plums. peaches. nectarsnes
dahlias, and so on.
am seventy-four years old. My
!, strength is good for my age, but il
, is not what it used to be. / sold part
of the Sebastopol experimental farm
because | could no longer operate it
The remainder will have to be sol
| for the same reason. On the thirteen
| acres that are left at Sebastorol are