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Show WIZARD BMNIl IN SANTA ROSfl His Experiments in Horticulture Hor-ticulture All Conducted Conduct-ed There, , Santa Rosa, the destruction of which is told in today's dispatches, is one of the most beautiful little cities in the whole of California. It Is on a branch of the Southern Pacific, and is th'e .center of hop growing and fruit ranches, than which none finer are raised in the whole of California. Cal-ifornia. . According to the reports from the stricken city it must be entirely destroyed, de-stroyed, since the population is only ten thousand. Santa Rosa is known the world over as the home of Luther Burbank, the wlsard of horticulture. Savants from every civilised civ-ilised country on the globe have made this pretty green little town their Mecca In search of knowledge how to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. Burbank's modest little home stood Just outside of the city limits of the pretty town, on the banks of a little creek spanned by a steel bridge. It looked very like a bit of New England transplanted, the house being a funny-gabled cottage, painted white, with tiny - window, panes and a newly scrubbed look that made It conspicuously Inviting to the wayfarer. Here he kept his immense greenhouse and many rare plants that they might be under his immediate supervision. Every bit of ground was under intense cultivation, cultiva-tion, and was a, bewildering confusion of green and flower colors. Seven miles away from Santa Rosa, on . a carllne, was situated Bebastopol, where Burbank kept his nursery, an immense affair, af-fair, from which the products of his brain, materialised into matter, were shipped to every quarter of the Inhabited globe. v Tens of thousands of people visited Santa San-ta Rosa annually .to see the wonderful work of Burbank and the quiet and retiring re-tiring farmer-scientist-gentleman who Created new and beautiful flowers Just for the love of It. He lived there with his old mother. . now, if living, ninety-four years of age. and a most charming old lady of the New England type. The ranch of former Senator Thomas Kearns Is located elffht miles from Santa Rosa. Up to noon Senator Kearns had received no Information from his ranch as U whether there was any damage or not. |