Show A r fr TH THE SAI SA SAL 1 I BURBANK PAm PAID TRIBUTE IN fETE SANTA ROSA Ca Cal May ray 17 11 Fifty years ago a young man with a n. kit hit ot of carpenters carpenter's tools plodded up the main street of ot Santa SantaRosa SantaRosa SantaRosa Rosa looking for tor work A A. carpenter who needed an as assistant assistant ns- ns cavo the young tellow fellow a Job and nc nd Luther Burbank who had come cometo cometo cometo to California from Massachusetts in search of ot health decided to stay and effect the realization of ot a n. big the Idea urging of ot trees and plants to greater development de for the servIce service service ice of humanity Today Santa Rosa is in carnival dress celebrating the Burbank golden Jubilee Burbank himself a n. youth of ot 75 years is the king Icing of the carnival Burbank labored at carpentering to make his living but in his of off hours fifty years ears ago he bit he-bit bit by bit began to realize on n his dream Back In Massachusetts Massachusetts the Burbank Burbank Burbank Bur- Bur bank potato already was known It was his sole achievement at the age of ot 25 Santa Rosa was to witness witness witness wit wit- ness other achievements First he developed a small nursery nurs nurs- er cry ery where he grew fruit trees and sold them to the farmers nearby and shrubs and flowers which he sold to the farmers farmers' wives wl His Ills business expanded and soon there was no no moro more reason for carpenter carpenter- ing I x Hundreds of new varieties of plants have bays resulted from his ex ex- ex Scores of ot fruits and flowering shrubs have been im im- im- im proved In his floral experimental gardens gardens gardens gar gar- dens here and in his horticultural laboratory at Sebastopol near here more than experiments are now going going- on under his direction Luther Burbanks Burbank's chief complaint today is that t there s seems ems to be beSo beso so SQ little time left for him to do the many things he has planned to do |