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Luther Burbank's farm at Sebastopol, California: Mr Burbank's second and larger experiment farm is located at Sebastopol, seven miles from Santa Rosa. The picture gives a glimpse across the farm, with some orchard trees in the foreground, and with Mt. St. Helena in the distance.

Identifier: cu31924008976916 (find matches)
Title: Luther Burbank, his methods and discoveries and their practical application;
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Burbank, Luther, 1849-1926 Whitson, John John, Robert Williams, Henry Smith, 1863-1943 Luther Burbank society
Subjects: Plant breeding
Publisher: New York, London, Luther Burbank Press
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ast. The soil issandy, no doubt part of one of many great sanddunes piled up by the waves of the Pacific Oceanand the winds in past ages. On this place there is a great variety of soilsand of degrees of moisture. Some parts of theland are so moist that the water seeps up to thesurface throughout the season, and the remainderis so loose and friable that moisture may be foundall through the summer even six months after anyrain has fallen upon it. Native Plants At the time the place was purchased about two-thirds of it was covered with white and tan oaks,the native Douglas spruce, manzanita, cascarasagrada, hazel and madrona, while beneath thetrees grew brodiaeas, calochortus, cynoglossum,wild peas, fritillarias, orchids, sisyrinchiums—yel-low and blue—and numerous other wild plantsand shrubs. During the first few years following the clear-ing away of this forest many species of cloverwholly new to me made their appearance, prob-ably in all nearly or quite twenty species. There (108)
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