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[:#pricot and has given to the world the plunoot, which combines the hardiness of the plum with the rich deliciousness of the spricot.
The same process has given us a quince with the favor of the pineapple, thus increasing the fruit valus of the former. He is working- on the blackberry, and we shall ultimately receive at his hands a large, rieb, luscious barry, two or three inches in length, almost ecules, with thorniess bushes and a favor rich and delicate.
-On-bis proving grounds experiments-by-the- hundreds of thousand are going on all the time, some of them not completed, though they wore began twenty and even thirty years ago,
Luther Burbank's early life in California was attended by many hard experionoon. He was very poor and was obliged to take any work that came to hand. He cleaned out
an odd job" hors and another there, passed through a very severe illness, went on the tramp for work, until finally he was able to start a little nursery on his own noceant,
see what the noise is. Very fat 'o was, and naked to the waist. The Malay what was runnin' amok catches sight of him, and was on DY COMMANDER B. HAMILTON CURREY, E.N.
him like a tigers be holde the kriss straight *'Orrore," said the Chief Hostmau, medita, arm, and drives it clean through the Chinaman, and I won six inches of it stand out of his back tively, "is things I don't by no means hold with from where I stood, Down goes the pigtail, myself, though there a chaps as I've know and the Malay 'e gires a sort of twist and a what'd run a mile to see anything what was
hesve, 'as the kriss out of him again, "and raus nasty."
The ineffectast daylight of a straight for where we wss Tim Mulcahy, thoroughly wot and cold summer's day was whst was one of our leadin' stokere, was standin merging into a rain-steaked twilight, through
dim
next to me George,e-says, very quiet, I which, na inn vision, the ships, great and ain't a fightin' anit aboard the ship, and weapons, small, passed outwards to the ses and fawards to the river athwart the turbid waters of the 'e says, ain't in my line, but not wishin to be rapidly-making food tide. The Stranger patoloskod like that there pigtail, I takes In fucs of the ouemy. With that he sat in atate in the armchair of ble host's
whips up
the little three-legged table at which , while the latter, pipe in mouth, stared quarters,
stare'd been sittin' and helds it by the legs in front Beaward through the blurred window. panice.
of him, and all of us does the same. “Yon have, no doubt;" queried the vialtor, It woren't "seen many horrors in
in your time! The
harrator, "to see what ought to 'ebon six deat-class fightin' men oppin' slowly, talking more to himself then to the other
around outside the hotel, ouch with a three- those that go down to the ses in Ay ships, as the sayin' is, sees sights what stops legg table in front of him, while mad Malay with 'em all their lives, sighis what they'd
raced about trying to kill the lot. It was un- handsoms to forget sometimes. There was that digaided and excitin. Just then Stripey, our day, it's more nor thirty years since, that I orgasnt of marine, come out of the hotel, and, first saw a bad accident at goa, ose a themot known what was up, sings cnt, Holy accidents what's called preventable, 'cause it smoke, is this some new sort of a
game, or ave was more or less the fault of one man alone;
yo1 all goie mad? The Malay esra' iu, soos but what I says in that the sailormas what comes
as be siù't got no table to defend himself with; { to overbaul the log of his memory and don't
and makes a rash. Mind his sword, Tom we all shouts, and.. Tom minded. Vary count one such scored up against him, that man's got cause to thank is stars! for it.
pretty boxer to was, and astonishing quick "'Omeward bound we was at the time, aut
for a fourtesa atone man; ho stands stool the frigate in which I was sarvin' was fair still the Malay's. actually upon him. Then & rampin through it; wind two points abaft the
takes just one pace sideways to the right, sud ns beam, ons reef down, and the foretopmast stansl the madman goes by swings round on his left set, when a man was sent aloft to do some job heel and lands im with is right fair on the on the weather side of the mainyard. This ear: the Malay goes over and lies like a lug. chap'e goes and does what no man had no right sed then the crowd comes up and lashes him up to do with the sea there was on that day: eike a steeraga 'amamook afore 'a comes to
imself again. starts and runs out on the yard; I was sit on the poop at the time, me bein' a youngster in
Chief Bostrian mused awhite, and then surwored ocntinned they dignifled, and that's a fact," chickson coops, helped in market gurdone, got
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LIFE AND WORK OF BURBANK.
"And what did you do!" asked the Stranger. them days and leadin and of the mizzan tetourselves into a congratulation party that none "We puts down our protectin tables, forma and 1 seen 'im start to run. Yaphe bllcer of the watsh, he sees him too,
us mess, and and sloge sat for him to lay out by thé footrope which was what 'e'ought to 'n done... but it was too late; the man runs along the yard, and just when be gets to the yardarm and makes a grab at the lift, which if he'd caught it he'd a bon quits safe, a big sex slipe up absam and, as it were, takes the yard clean LATEST ACHIDYMENTS OF THE PLANT from under his feet. Twice 'e turned Over an
WIZARD. fell, and then went ander with a splash in the Luther Burbank has been called a wizard, 'ollow between two big seas I miod to this but the term is mistoading, writes George day how that there atune'! beom cracked short Wharton James in the Cire's, Thore is n off in the boom-iros, and the thunder of the wizardry in his achievementa. Yot to necom. flappin' canvis as ber helm was jammed down pany him to his onotus patol and there sea the and the shot up into the wind; she took a big great, beary leave! desert plaat, so covered sea, green over the 'ammock nettia's, drowndin' with Gerce thorns that even to stand near it out the men what was rushin' on deck to makes one squirm and then to follow step by step shorten sail and eave 'er to but the lifeboatwhere, in different sections, he shows the cactus was manned and ready for lowerin in slowly losing its thorns, until you stand before something under forty-five seconds. Him that group into which he suddenly dives headlong, was overboard I seen from time to time, a taking the great leaves and rubbing, his fuso white face, it seemed to me, lookin' desperate and hands against tham-this does seem like like, and swimmin' strong but there was a lamp. It is even more pleasing and squally surpris
inagic. of a sea on, and it looked sa if 'e was gettin' ing to sit at his table and have served to you the fruit of this same cactus-the prickly pear ofthe Indian-but wholly free from thorns and changed from the tasteless, brons, and fruit to a richly favored, juley, delicious table Inxury lo his garden not far from the cact as patch is his wonderful crimson rhabarb. Here is the popular pio plant, with stalks two inches think, and growing all the time, winter and summer so that the ubiquitous pia may be malo trash from the garden all the year around.
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weather."
The Chief Boatman paused and blow dense clouds of tobacco against the window pane; so long did he remain silent that the Stranger ventured to say, "And then!"
And then, repeated the narrator, "I just what don't hardly bear talking about. To lot the bost go clear, two pins had to be taken out of the slippin' gear; one man whoes daty it was to take out one of these pins forgot to do so.. The office of the watch he sings out, Are you all ready to slip and the coxswain 'e answer Ay, by, sir,Let go,' says the officer of the watch. They lets go in the boat, but the pin bein' in one fall goes clear and the other holds; the next moment the stern o' the boat was in the air, her bows was trailin" in the water, and
thirteen men and the midshipman of the boat was strugglin' in the water alongside with ours, masts, sale, and all the boat's gear rainin' down on their heads.
The ship was stopped by this time, au' there was them that went in from the ship for to lend a hand to them what seemed in troubla like,”
"I have noticed you wear the silver Humane Bociety medal," interpolated the Stranger "Well, I was overboard in the light of a grease line, doin' what I could for the Lost part of half- an-hour," admitted the Chief Bontman, but then, you see, my chum, 'a was starboard stroke o' the cutter, au got a clip on the head from a Fallin' car, so some one ad to fish in out, so why not me, what was on the poop? Anyways, afore we got clear o' that mess we'd at the mid and four ands, besides the chap what went over board to start with, it bein', you understand, his fault from start to finish; for a chap to run out on a yard in such weather zin't bein' smart an' sailorlike, but is actin' like a perishin' loony, what ought to be shut up in Yarmouth, where the naval loony goes to.
As I was sayin' when I started, 'orrore ain't attractions for me, but the next one I get seen come off aahore nët so very long after, at a port near.Bingapore; it seems to ma continued the Chief Boatman, that there's mighty rum folk knoskin' about this "ars world of ours, and
Then, all at once, he did something that made those who knew about it look at him. An order came for 20,000 young praes trees. Could be fill it to nine months
He hadn't a props tres on his place, and how was be going sapply 20,000 in nise months? He got together all the men and boys he could find to plant almonds for him,They grow rapidly. When they were ready he had 20,000 pruse buds ready for them, and in a short time the prunes were budded into the
growing almonds, and before the time was up the trees were delivered to the delighted ranchmen.
And I have seen these 20,000 prune tress. They are growing to-day, and it is really one of the next orchards in California,
Before he disposed of his business his returne were $10,000 a year. Then be sold out. What for? to rest? To tako a holiday trip? No! Now he was randy to give his whole life to the experiments be had been dreaming of for years. the dreamer and experimenter is seldom a money But it is a well known foot of all history that
maker. So it was with "Burbank. His exper iments were costly, Soon-bis intereat money was all gone, He began to nas up the principal.
Year after year he worked on, now and agala lotting the world know of some new discovery. His fortune began to dwindle, yet he never faltered. Ha determined to keep on as his money held out, and then, said be in talking to me of this period:
I was willing
to begin over again if I had to. I felt sare I could earn enough to live on, and if not-if I had grown too old, and feeble, Providence would. see that I was cared for in some way or other
and decided. It was my privilege to be with In his method of working Burbank is quick him daring one morning in his proving ground at Sevastopol, some seven miles from his home.
Row after row of young plum trees, covered with fruit, stood before ad. Two assistants were with us, one with a handful of white cords and one with a handful of brown or black ones,
"These are all grown from the same seed. Now Bee how they differ.
Rapidly he looked at que, carefully tested it, He picked a few plums from the first tres, and said, "Kill" I-had-soarcely-got-my-tooth into the first plam when he was on to the next tree and the next and the next, with a rapidity. trained to scientific assurry, saw at what that was simply natounding. Hia keen eyes,
seemed to me to be one glance all the attributes of the tree. One taste satisfied him as to tex. tare, juiciness and flavor of the fruit, and thus, almost in a moarent, he had decided whether that tree was worth keeping for further experiment,
and look at these gorgeous and splendid cron.
Are you interested in flowere? Then
tions. Here are poppies, bed after bed of them all sader test. This last bad is about fifty feet square and there are about two thousand plantation or was to go to the bonfire. in it. Here are poppies the like of which were. never seen before since the world bagun-br. bride, the results of ceasings upon which Mr Burbank has been working for years.
There are no two alike. The leavor are
Almost as fast as I can write it the words fell
from his lips. "kill," "keep," "keep," "kill," pat on the white or black strings which donated "kill" keep." The attendants followed sad
the fate of the particular tree. Turbank's labers is sure to be interesting to A little history of the very beginning of Mr. those who like to know how the primary idea of great achievements was born. He was but a mere lad in New England when the Brst thoughts i of plant development and improvement came to him. He saw that all the apples on the same tree were not exactly the same in size, color, shape, juiciness, flavor, or fibre.
wonderfully diverse, and the whole foliage and blossoms bewilder as by their strange diversity. Some of these poppies are vast in size, Seven of them placed side by side vertically are as tall as a toll man, eight as high as a giant, and one could hide completely behind a dozen of them. In color they are a mass of crimson and black and white, with many intermediats bend ink, and unlike the ordinary poppy, which bloss gathered from one ress bush roses that, soms only for two or three weeks, these are while of the same species, were larger, smiler, perennials and flower all the time.
redder, plerin tint, more fragrant, les fragrant than others on the same bush, Potatoes in the same bill were of differing sizes and quality This led him to the and flavor, and so on. conclusion that if, by selection or cross-fertiliza tion, these better fruits or flowers could ba stimulated the whole product would be improved,
The amaryllis also shows the marvellous life power of his work, In a few years he has developed it from a small lower with a few inches of breadth to nearly a foot in diameter, with every shade of crimson, pink, or scarlet and many astonishing combinations of color,
But to do this tba whole plant-bali, stain and leaves-bad to be changed. E seans like magic to the ordinary mind to see the gradual transformation of a small bulb to one four times its size aud- live or more times its weight and with its power of multiplication increased night to tez fold, To watch the development or creation of a new stem is equally magical. The of amaryllis stem could never have held these large new flowers, so a stocky, strong, low stem was ersated.
Burbank has taken the lily and worked won. ders with it. I have stood side by side with him looking at a bed of lilies upon which he had worked for twenty six years, You are looking with me upon flowers that the eye of man bas never seen before. ** And then one by one he tiderly touched a score or more of them, calling attention to their wonderful colorings, differ encoe in size, lonfage, &c.
His Achievements with the daisy are more fascinating than a fairy tale. From England, Japan, Germany, Australia-everyware that daises grew he got seeds of the host varieties, not a few but hundreds, thousands, Theaa. were carefully planted and watched.
mostly of all colours-black, white, brown, and yellow. Mind you, la my time, I've seen a tidy lot of folk go clean off their chumps, but mostly they was a paisance principally to them- salves; but for fair rampin, ravin', tearin', bloodthirety madness there ain't no one to equal a Malay Before what I'm goin to tell you now I never knowed it myself, but one afternoon down in the Malay Straits, just red me what one of these here yellow perishers can do when he gets fairly on the job. "It was an unconsidered sort of little port, like if I told you the name you wouldn't be none the wiser; but anyways, I can't cause I've forgotten it myself. There was some better class bungalows, where lived English and Dutch merchants, but mostly it was a collection of. ruinous tumbledown shacks, built of matchboard- ing and matting, with awnings propped on poles slickin' oat into the street. There was a hotel, it called itself, kept by a Chinaman, where you could get Christian English beer, which stood in the main street, st a corner where another street come in at right angles, and here, under awning, me and six others from the ship was sittin' about three o'clock one afternoon. It was very
the mosquitoes droned round
Tontonsand seeds require for this one our eads, and the heat from the sandy street in experiment ? Yes, and often the ten thousand front of us was that awful that not one of us
become fifty or bendrad or five hundred seemed much inclined to talk, but just sipped thoussad before he gets what he wants. It par beer and shoved the mstólse around to any is this large dealing that has differentiated chap that wanted a light. Presently, down the Mr. Burbank's plans from those of other men, mide 'street came a noise; at first it was like bees He speedily learned that great results are hummin', but it grew and grew nutil wo horra-not-to-be-obtained from inadequate methods. men shoutin' and women screamin', and a pack The ten thousand daisy seeds were only a o people runnin' in our direction. Then I startor. Millions and millions of daisies were Loans a roar what sounds like Ainok Amok: grows from these seeds, and it was culy after Amok !* Bud in front of the crowd I seen on the experimenta were completed and the habits man ruanin. He was
of the Shasta permanently zed that the big, muscular Malay, naked but for his silk sarong around is waist, experimental plants were destroyed.
is body all glistenin' with swest in the sunlight, In
teeth bared like a dog what wants to bite is wonderful tables he has produced equally
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eyes just Barin' in his head like searchlights Tulis right hand he 'olds one of them Malay krisses, which is long, snaky sort of knives, an
They were all going to be sisin, ont of their death was to come a new daisy, large, more beautiful, more hardy and that would lower in every olimate perennially. The result was his Shasta daisy, one of the most beautiful ferers exor son of plear brilliant whito, great size; the centre of pare yellow resting upon slender
vob strong stems.
results. As elsewhere related, the potato that Lang his name was big first achievement. Tomatoes, forage plants, sugar unrichment of the magie toteh to the great enrichment of the world.
It was rod, red to the hilt of it, the blood drippin' from the point as he rau. All this takes a long
To fruits his labora are startling. Ha has time to tell, but e come along the street under made a giant plum, rich and delicious in favor, forced draught, in a manner o' speakin', and juicy, hardy, a prolific bearer and the largest a crowd-ruquin behind him. Just twenty | known; his prane is full of sugar, larger, yards or so short o' the "hotol, as he comes up, and more, productive than the back of the A big fat Chinamen steps out of a house to old varieties. He wedded the plum and the
While these thoughts were bubbling in bis brain he was market gardener and was growing potatoes, and he saw that out of a batch
of potatoes in bis field there was but one which bore a seed ball. He decided to experi. ment with the woods.
When he came to pick the ball it was gone. La despair he was bent to go away and give up when he decided to make a search for it. Soon to Eis delight he found it where, doubtless, some wandering dog had knocked it sa ha rusbed through the garden.
I be experimenta began and soon developed the now world renowned Barbank potato, from which millions have been made and which has given cheaper and better potatoes to the world. Yet he sold it to a local seedsman for $150-***
of age. Then a sanstroke made a partial furslid That was his start, and he was not yet 20 years of him, and all his life seemed to be changed. For his health he was shipped off to California, and here he had battles and struggles that, would have dangted and discouraged any but the most determined and slavere.
To most people Burbank appears shy and reserved, almost to diffidence and limidity. He to him about his work or his thought and bis a shrinking in a sense, but let questions be put
answers are as clear, sharp and decisive as thoss of any man I ever knew. There is no aggres siranos or self-assertiveness, but a definiteness and rarity that show he has thought long and deeply and come to all his conclusions for him. elf, yet he has the spirit of a boy,
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