Show Burbank Rests Beneath His Cedar Tree Simple Burial Eulogy Given By Ben Lindsey SANTA ROSA Calif April 16 By By The Associated Press Preas- Preas PreasA A cedar of Lebanon across the road from Irom a covered vine vine con red cottage cotta In the tho midst o of a garden arden had tn lak t tak- tak taken k en on a 1 lasting significance to the Citizens of ot Santa Rosa today For under Its protectIng branches Luther Burbank friend of every living thing thin was waa laid to teat rest when the Iho sun un sonic sank nl behind the green bill hills In the west we t laet Jast night No monument marks mark the po spot where here the great horticulturist tat found his sylvan couch for Cor Burbank asked BIlked that a growing Irro tree be his only headstone Work went on as usual again today In the shops and stores tores and schools and gardens of SantaRosa Santa SantaRosa Rosa Roea but many a worker paused for a moment to think of the end ended end end- ended ended ed task of their friend and fellow citIzen for 60 50 odd years BURIAL BV tJ IJ The burial was Wall as all simple as the funeral of the tho of oC unknown paupers yet et Burbanks Burbank's fame went out to the ends of the earth The trees and plants that produce o better fruits and flowers because of ht his hi efforts speak even where his name Is unknown Burbank was borne to his hilI grave rave by old workers and lifelong com com- companions companions down a a a pathway strewn with Ills widow hIs sister Mrs Irs Emma Beeson anda and anda a few close friends ds followed the casket No widows widow's weeds were worn Joy y 1 y 1111 Mrs Burbank urbank and the coffin coWn was I the only visible evI- evI evIdence evidence evi evidence dence of the bereavement but the tears of the mourners testified their love for tor the dead The voice of o Dorothea Talbot singing silver Sliver Threads Among mong the Gold was all that I a was heard by most of the m men n women and children who crowded the fences of the Burbank yard ard to to observe the burial Traffic policemen and Boy Scouts kept back the crowds as aa the sorrowful little procession from the Burbank house to the rave grave under un er the tree The Rev Caleb S S So Dutton of the FIrst Unitarian church of San Fran Francisco cisco deCo worded a brief brier prayer Judge Jude Ben B D Lindsey of o Denver spoke an eulogy for tor the dead and the burial was I over 2000 EXPERIMENTS TS Burbank died only Sunday morning after an linen Illness of two weeks lIe He was 77 years ears old but w was s conducting more than 2000 separate horticultural experIments when he was stricken The tree of Lebanon under which he be wu was burled was planted by the scientist r J any years ears ago before he had attaIned tho fame which made him a world figure Luther Burbank was tho the mO most religious man I ever knew Judge Lindsey Lindley said His was wan a 8 real religion that actually works for human betterment nt A religion that dares to challenge the su- su su superstition hypocrisy and sham sham that so often otten worked cruelties in- in in inquisitions wars au and massacres that stood 1085 ross roas the road of progress commanded nearly god godor or gods fostered the meanest devils that we I know know ignorance bigotry fanaticism and hate The The prejudiced beneficiaries of organized theology miscalled re religion rev reo ligion refused refus d to see that Bur bank Bur bank tho the gifted child of nature saw zaw with a vision lalon as crystal cOstal as their Is dense a and nd dark And And so they assailed him as the mob spat on Christ knowing no not what they did I Judge Lindsey Lindley cy prefaced his ad address ad- ad address address dress with the statement that Mr Burbank paid me one of the tho greatest honors of my life liCe when he requested that I speak hero on the occasion of his passing It Itis ItIs is II not only to bring here hers the tho but best tribute of ot lovo love and affection ap appreciation n and admiration that I 1 Iam am capable of bringing but to keep the compact we made that If he should go first I would take tako this small part In his tribute to hIs bors li-bors |