| Show Luther Burbank Burba k Gardens The Luther Burbank world famous garden is located within the city limits of Santa Rosa California only a short distance from the business section It Is I small in area only about two acres The cottage In which ho he lived Is located here I Tho The entrance Is through a small brick in the center of or which a small monument monument which carries a bronze plate I tho the lettering of or it states here hero lived Luther Burbank who experimented with I flowers and plants bringing into exis- exis existence tance tence new spices to be helpful to mankind There is nothing spectacular i lar lIar about the garden nothing the visitor can dramatize There are grown some of or orthe I the spineless cactus When you see these these plants growing in their natural desert I habitual bristling with their hostile needles one can realize the care and patience Luther Burbank must have exercised to bring into existence the friendly leaves of the giant plant He must have carried the plant through many generations to have achi achi- achieved achieved achieved eved the result In the cactus garden of ot tho Huntington estate at San Marino is growing in their natural state every known variety of ot the cactus plant They are arc all bristling with sharp and curly needles The Tho writer does not know through how many generations Luther Burbank carried the tho plant before he developed his first spineless one They must have been very numerous before he ho produced a pure breed and that would not revert to its former spiney state Many of the other flowers and plants were covered with cellophane bags to protect them from wandering from rom unwanted varieties In this garden is Indeed the marriage of or the flowers and none hone but the members of the aristocracy are allowed to enter the state of ot wed wed- lock On the grounds one may purchase the seeds of ot new and Improved species of ot fruits and flowers developed here Luther Burbank provided in his will that that- his bis garden should go to the Santa Rosa Junior College and that institution is 18 carrying on the Burbank experiments and traditions The garden becomes a laboratory of zoology and in I which some of or the students of ot t college collego work Perhaps here another and more famous Luther Burbank may be born to work with nature I W. W J. J J BARDSLEY Adjutant Post No 14 I American Legion |
