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LUTHER BURBANK.
HIS "HARVEST OF THE YEARS."
"CHATTY NOTE BOOK."
American newspapers used to speak of Luther Burbank aa the plant 'wizard". In this book and elsewhere the author himself im- plies that this title was a misnomer of which he was not really proud. All his wonderful plant creations were the result of scientific applica- tion and assiduity in the School of Nature.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1928.
BISHOP POZZONI,
PONTIFICAL SERVICE. AT
CATHEDRAL.
3,000 PRESENT.
| P’RAPS-P’RAPS NOT!
Farmer: Thought you said you had ploughed the ten-acre fleld?
Ploughman: No; I only said I In connection with the anniver-was thinking about ploughing it sary of the death of the late lament-
Farmer: Oh, I see; you've mere- ed Monsignor D. Pozzoni, Bishop of ly turned it over in your mind. Tavia and Vicar Apostolic of Hong Kong, a Pontifical dead service was held at the Roman Catholic Cathe- get it. drat this morning.
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"Mary, dear, I shall never for- Your kindness to me through this trying illness will live There was a large congregation in my memory forever. Why did present, numbering nearly 3,000 you do it?" Catholica of Hong Kong, and In-1
The volume before us, which is
"Well, David, it would hardly do a kind of chatty note book with an institutions and associations of the at Christmas time."
cluding members of all the Catholic to be widowed with seven children autobiographical turn, is a wonder-.
fully human book with a charm and Colony. Pupils of St. Joseph's Col- attraction all its own. Everybody lege, the French and Italian Con- Husband (grumpiing about dress- who has known anything of Bur-vents and other Catholic schools maker's hill): What became of that bank's work or who has experiment also attended.
pretty dress of yours made of The service was conducted by his some clinging material? ed with plants himself will find interest in this simple statement by sisted by the clergy of the Catheyears before I was able to shoke it Lordship, Bishop H. Valtorta, 23-
Wife: It clung to me for three the, Master Hand. And yet The cannot help feeling how wise dral and members of the French, off. Luther Burbank was in keeping to Spanish and American Missions in practical, work instead of branch-Hong Kong. The service was made. ing off into writing books, or lec- all the more impressive by the teaches etiquette in a deaf-and- turing, or other academical work. Cathedral 'Choir taking part in the dumb school,"
Scientific Viewpoint.
chants.
"That little
man over there
"What are his duties?" "He teaches the pupila not to
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talk with their hands full.”
From a scientific point of view. the book is not a success. Although the author, again and again, em-
Burly Farmer (looking out of phasises the fact that all his work visitors to the great experimental the carriage window at a gang of was just applied science and ob-farms at Santa Rosa? The present, platelayers standing aside as the servation with quantity as his writer remembers well many years train passed): "Dang my eyes, this special handmaiden thrown in, we ago when he first planned to go beats, the band. I've bin up an cannot help feeling what a pity it home via America Just to see the down this line five times this week, was that Burbank did not. note wizard and his work, and how he and never yet have I seen those every species and variety he used wrote to Mr. Burbank of his in- fellows doing a stroke of work!" when he began each experiment. tentions: and the disappointment De Vries, the great Dutch botaniat, when the plan fell through all on went to Santa Roan to visit Mr.account of lack of funds! |Burbank, and though he speaks in unstinted praise of his work he saya:it has been contended that i "the discussion of the scientific "side of the question should abstain and we think most persons will "from the use of the breeders' re agree with the author "sults. There can be no doubt that bank's own view was that the spine. "That's a very old suit you are
The Spineless Cactus.
Master: "Is the mistress going out this afternoon?"
Mald: "Yes, sir."
Master: "Do you know if I'm
From this book we may judge, going?"
that Bur-' Boss (to shabby office boy):
euc- wearing, isn't it?"..
been for some time. The tres-"in the end this will prove the right less cactus was his greatest J Office Boy (absent-mindedly):
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are ΤΟ ΠΟΣΟ
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sury, therefore, is gradually ac-"way, since only then will it be cess.
Many thinkers now realise that "Yes, sir. Mother bought it when cumulating a valuable "cheat" "possible to submit all arguments.
"to the most severe criticism." we are at the end of what has been I got my last advance in wages." which, provided little of it is (Plint Breeding p.180),
called the Columbian era. There And
"The tightest corner I was ever directed into the paths of war-again:-"In the most intricate casca
continents hidden'
The In," said the retired sailor to his fare, will soon see the Adminis-"the breeders' purpose is simply to away in unexpected oceans,
"increase the material for their whole habitable globe is now with friends in the taproom, "was in the tration on its feet.
"selection as largely as possible. in the reach of any man, and such South Seas. I had stripped and swim when The fear of further hostilities "All means conducive to this are of it as is really suitable for habita. jumped overboard for in the South, we are pleased to "combined and the scientist finds tion is already full. The restless, a shark made for me. observe, is a gradually receding "himself at a loss in trying to dis-energy of genius must now be turn-"Yes," he continued, "came right jat me did the shark. So I took "cern the real causes from amidsted to a more intensive channel-toli
out me jack knife and dived. Com- one, thanks to General Li Chaithe chaos," So the great botanist the vast stretches of desert, and the sum's reported declaration of his found himself in difficulties. trackless table lands of Greenland, ing up, I stabbed the shark under- policy vis-a-vis Marshal Chiang
and to make them capable of sup-neath in dozens of places, until he Mendel's Work.
floated away, dead." porting a large population. Our "But," interrupted a listener, "if Kai-shek and the Nanking Na- Then, too, what a pity it was that descendants will see this, but the tionalists. The Canton leader Luther Burbank should blind him-real honour will rest with those who you were stripped how could you gives us to understand that whilst self to the work of others. No thought in continents and who laid find a knife?"
great modern worker with plants the foundation by which the de-! "Garn," was the sailor's wither- there is no open separation in re- can fail to appreciate the work of sert should blossom as the rose. ing retort. "It isn't a yarn you gard to Nanking Canton will, to Mendel. It has been one of the Burbank was one of these, and his want. What you want is a bloom- all intents and purposes, "gang world's losses that the observations spineless cactus was the beginning ing argument." its sin gait.” This line of action by the Abbe Mendel failed to reach of it. There is scarcely a region! Judge: "Were you ever in trouble
Charles Darwin. Yet this is what so dry that the cactus was announced in these columns Luther Burbank says of it:-"A grow in it. But in the desert the last week. Canton is to obey "young man once wrote me asking difficulty is good for beasts of library book too long once, and was Frisoner: "Well--er-kept a Nanking in matters of general "which book he should read by burden. Now the spineless cactus fined three-pence." Nationalist policy, but General Li Mendel the great scientist who con gives both meat and drink to the "cerned himself with the problem baggage animal. In this way the Chai-sum will insist on autonomy "of heredity and hereditary laws to desert areas may be gradually re- baby crying?"
Maisle: "But, mother, why in Hong Kong, Monday, Feb. 20, 1927. in the Canton city and the "inform himself of the scientific duced to a minimum. The phy Mother: "I don't know.
Kwangtung provincial branches "facts in that field. I wrote him in sicist of the future will no doubt been crying for half an hour."
"reply something like this: My ad- help considerably by the discovery Maisie: "Then why don't you of the Nationalist party. All in "vice to you is to start Mendel by of an apparatus for ionising the give it to him?** all, therefore, the outlook for con- "reading Darwin, and then let waterbearing strata of the atmos. tinued peace in
the South is "Mendel go and read more Darwin." phere, and tapping the internal "I want to look at a pair of eye- bright, and the hour, we submit,
We cannot help thinking that, heat of the earth to melt the Green glasses," said the young woman, great As
Burland ice sheet. But with Burbank with a determined air. pro-resta the real honour so far. visiting in the country I made a It was in thinking over the very painful blunder which I never prospects of this cactus that the want to repent." present writer wrote to Burbank "Indeed!" Bald shortly before his death, and
the optician. ceived from him what must have quaintance, perhaps?"
re- "Mistook a stranger for an
been one of the last letters he ever
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SIR MILES AT CANTON,
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The stay of Sir Miles Lampson, the British Minister at Peking, in Canton, the programme which was announced in the "Sunday Herald" yesterday will we hope, signalise a further tightening of the friendly. bonds between the administrators in the Kwangtung capital and the Gov- ernment of this Colony. For some
is most propitious for that closer bank's
Luther Was work in plant understanding which we all desire ductions stoneless fruits, tasty between the Kwang administra-pean, hard
quick-growing tim- tion and the Colony.
ber, etc., etc.,It would have been much greater and much more wo derful if he had appreciated to the, full the secrets of Mendel.
INSECT PEST.
PINE-TREES?
SANITARY BOARD QUERIES.
will not before?"
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"While
ac-
beautiful
"No, not exactly that. I mistook 'A Gardener Touched With Genius wrote:---
a bumble-bea for a blackberry." De Vries, the great Dutch botanist,
"The opuntia does not thrive called Luther Burbank, 'a gardener "well in any rainy country but in Immanuel (the brave Toreador): touched with genius. Readers of dry climates it does wonderfully. "Ah, senorita, to-night I will steal Shakespeare's plays know that "both very productive of fruit and beneath your balcony and sing you Swinbourne with almost uncannyforage for animals. The spineless sweet serenade." instinct could read through a scene "cactus is always grown from cut- Consuello from one of the plays, and pro-"tings never from seed as they do senorita): "Do, and I will drop you nounce on its genuineness or other not produce seed. It is grown all, a flower." At to-morrow's meeting of the wise. The ordinary human being, "over the world now especially ini Immanuel: "Ah, in a moment of Sanitary Board, Mr. J. P. Braga, probably reached the same conclu- "Africa, Australia, round the maid love?" pursuant to notice, will ask:- sion but only after the laborious "Mediterranean, etc. We do not Consuello: "No, in a pot.".
Has any report reached the method of counting the weak end-ship cactus to foreign countries. Head of the Sanitary Depart-ings' or 'end-stopped lines. After men of the prevalence in very somewhat similar fashion Luther large numbers of caterpillare Burbank could race through a bun- among the pine-trees on the dred thousand seedlings, and pick hills above Kowloon Tong? out almost miraculously, the few which would vary in a particular
while, particularly since the re- MANY CATERPILLARS AMONG turn of Li Chai-sum, it has been mooted that a better understand- ing could be effected by a person- al meeting between our Governor and the Canton Administrator, and this visit of the Minister may pave the way for it. In this con- nection we would reiterate the remarks of our special Chinese correspondent, "Li Chung-yin," who in these columns on Satur day last emphasised that har- mony between Canton and Hong Kong was now firmly established.
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Respectfully yours,
Luther Burbank.”
The Great Unexplored,
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"I think, George," remarked Mrs.. Gregson, as she came in from the kitchen, that we ought to invite the Blundells to dinner this even- ing."
Her husband threw aside his Many of the apheres of scientific paper and removed his spectacles. "Er-what was that, my dear T
2 If the answer is in the nega-direction. But who knows but it
tive, will the Government. cause inquiries to be made to was the 'recessives' of some parti- research are being or have been so ascertain the fact or other-cular quality which he chose? carefully worked that the prospect he asked, nervously.
Nature seems to have endowed him of great immediate progress seems His wife repeated her remark In wise of the existence of such with one of her choicest gifts as small. But if there is one sphere a firmer voice.. insect pest?
"Just as you Hike," agreed Mr.. not so it is horticulture and plant Gregson. "But why do you say: breeding." Listen to the clarion we ought
3 If in the affirmative, will the she did Swinburne in the literary more than another in which thie is
Head of the Sanitary Depart sphere.
ment kindly ascertain if there
le any danger of the pest de-
veloping Into a "caterpillar plague"?
4 If such danger is feared, will
His Creations.
note of the Master Hand:-The Well" replied the other, their
With a single-eyed devotion ha "horizon of plant breeding as one of butcher happened to leave their gave himself up to plant creation "the richest and one of the least oc- meat hare by mistake, and it seems
in one form after another. One of "cupied of all the territories of only fair!! the Government take framed his first was the Burbank potato, "science is. Mimitable. On It a few.
ate and such necessary steps obtained by working on a potato "men have sketched vague pictures
on the.
at it may be advised to pre- which gave a ripening reed cap- "of the possibilities yet to be realle- Hong Kong passengers vent the spread of this insect sule. He used this instead of the "ed. Only a hint of what may be "President Taft which arrived pest, and ravages resulting tuber with eyes. Quite simple," "done has been revealed to us. It here yesterday from Seattle, Japan. therefrom to the risk of the you say. But how many of us remains for the next few genera and Shanghai included Mr. Howard Kowloon, hills being denuded would have thought of such a pre- tions to develop and expand the Jensen (Eli Lilly Co. of Chicago); of the young pine trees?
Whilst irritated by the in- evitable internal disorders, of a minor nature which are the lot of any regional government in China, Canton has one gigantic problem, which is the lack of ready money. How the Ironsides and the "Reds" depleted the trea- sury during their þrief reigna re- cently has already been hinted at, Now it may be definitely stated. that they made a good job of it which is one reason why Canton
cesa. The obvious" lazy man's "discoveries and explorations and Mr. F. A, da Silva (of the Portu- has deliberately repudiated its
starting point is the tuber-only it "acquisitions of the pioneers, but guese Government), Professor and won't give the starting point for "that there lies beyond that horizon Mrs. W. I Milham; among the banknote issue. This monetary
variety.
“a new world of beauty, utility, passengers going through to diffculty, however, in only likely
The Committes appointed by the Then think of the plums, the "wealth, and good for all mankind Manila are Mr. W. Schmidt (a New to prove of a temporary nature. Sanitary Board to inquire into the stoneless fruits the absolutely set cannot be questioned. I ayself York merchant), Mr. F. 1. MASK. Kwangtung is a rich Frovince and question of re-adjustment of local fruits, the varieties of corn, the "have had a little glimpse of the (Chins Electric Importing Co
Shanghai), LEE. E. Blevens, the movements of trade are now the Board meeting at 4.15 pm to he absolutely created! Is it any
how market stall rents will report to quick-growing hard timber tress "Promised Land.”
US NAME and Miss Stevens. more regular than they have morrow.
Mrs. WE Shumaker,
wonder that he bad, a stream of
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