Show A Dea That Is Not Death Luther Burbank Still Lives L I I. I c II d p 1 t J r 1 Mrs Luther Burbank right and anti the he old Burbank home at Santa wi wizards a ds d's memory S S I jj C By WILLIAM C. C NEA Staff NEA-Staff Staff Writer o J Copyright 1926 NEA Service Inci SANTA ROSA Cal Dec Lu Luther ther Burbank is not dead All that he ho did still lives I This is the atmosphere Burbank home here Probably Probably y jio io other man who ever gave up the flesh left so much of himself behind Burbanks Burbank's widow now is making that much live in greater greatel reality for the world If In creating the shrine which Luther Burbanks Burbank's grave beneath a Cedar of Lebanon in his own garden gorden is becoming Mrs Betty W Waters j er i is causing restoration of the the old Burbank home home home-a a humble bul building in which the tile great naturalist natural natUral- i 1st lived ed while fighting his wa way to I recognition i J Almost immediately after 4 the dentists dentist's death Mrs Irs Burbank BurbanK de tie ired she meant to change of this home rI r dont don't want people to think of Mr Burbank merely under a tree she he declared I r I want them to think to think of him under a a garden his own well loved garden The change under uDder way is doing just that that and and making B Burbank more vivid to th the townspeople and to the visiting worshiping thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands who come close to the low fen fence e surrounding the gardens speak in quiet tones and s-ea s read lea l the simple typewritten card tacked to the fence Luther Burbank Bur said S. S fJ I I should like to feel that Ill my strength was g going ing into the strength of a tree So he ho was laid here under this big ig cedar where he used to go often during his iliS rest or study The grave is unmarked e except by flowers The old did ld Burbank home a beautiful beautiful beautiful ful specimen of the New England colonial type of architecture was constructed about 1886 and occupied by Burbank In 1888 Additions and 0 I changes to t tile the e original structure I rC were made from from- time to time Ume but it it was its ts appearance appearance In 1890 that will wil willbe be reproduced today t A-t t the tile the side gate has has' be been n posted a sign informing the public that it iti itis is is i Impossible to to escort scort parties through the gardens ard ns but that but that Luther Luther Lu Lu- ther Burbank in Ills his lifetime caused the thc fences to be built bout low so that all might see see and since sinco his death explanatory cards have been tacked t to the fence to show what flowers are arc being grown There is a carpet of ne needles Un Un- dr der the Lebanon cedar Rays of ot the smiling sun of Santa Rosa reach Teach through the foliage pattern attern- attern ing the tile grave with soft shadows Luther Burbank never die di die die- not so 50 long as his Ills bright flow flowers rs arid td good fruits vegetables vegetables' grains I and trees survive on this earth |