Identifier: lutherburbanksbo00binn (find matches)
Title: Luther Burbank's bounties from nature to man
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: (Binner, Oscar E., co., Chicago) (from old catalog)
Subjects: Burbank, Luther, 1849- (from old catalog)
Publisher: (Chicago, Oscar E. Binner co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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stribution of the records of Luther Burbank in bookform. Washington I consider Bur-banks work the mostimportant ever donefor American horticulture, both as toresults obtained andin the educationalvalue of his example. Walter T. Swingle,U. S. Dept.of Agriculture, Contents The first edition will be published in five volumes.Every step of Mr. Burbanks researches and discover-ies, presenting 35 years work in producing new andimproved varieties of fruits, flowers, trees, vegetables,grains, grasses, nuts, forage plants, etc., from his firstexperiments to the present time, will be fully recordedin detail in plain language, so that anyone can followhis methods with successful results. Illustrations The books will be practically illustrated from hun-dreds of photographs and full page paintings in nat-ural colors, made directly from the subjects, underLuther Burbanks supervision. The illustrations inthis prospectus are specimens and were reproduced bythe Binner-Wells Co. (The House of Quality).
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yiarri<» BURBANKS PEARS.—A delicious combination of the Bartlett and Le Conte, andfully four times as productive. Indiana He has produced new fruits, he has discovered new flowers, not an orchardbut will be enriched as the outcome of his work, not a garden that will not bemore beautiful because of his discoveries:—American Farmer. 10 Value The value of these books to humanity will be ap-preciated when it is known on what an enormous scaleLuther Burbank conducts his experiments. While agreat deal has been published in every part of theworld about his work, the general public has but afaint idea of its economic importance to nations, or ofthe wealth realized by individuals through taking ad-vantage of his discoveries. Importance In these books the world will be presented, for alltime to come, a text of such vast commercial and socialimportance as has never been told by man in any age;a text that will teach the owner of an acre or more ofground everywhere to make it yield the gre

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