LutKer BurbanK's Iris
Reproduced from a Direct Color PhotbgrapH
WHILE Luther Rurbank's home
ly potato has probably, of all of
his inventions, imant most in
money to the world and
while his ungainly cactus will probably
mean more it is interesting to know
that this creator of so many useful forms
of plant life personally loves best of all
the hours he spends with his flowers.
Luther Burbank's belief is that flowers
have a wonderful influence upon human
beings; that their scents and their grace
ful lines and their beautiful colors have
specific beneficial effects upon the hu
man mind, and he has always felt,
while his new fruits and other foods
were eagerly welcomed by a hungry
world, that the work which he has done
on flowers has none the less a definite
and lasting value.
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It would take a magazine larger than
tlii s merely to catalog the flower im
provements which Luther Burbank has
wrought not to describe them or to
picture them, but merely to give their
names in one-line headings.
His Amaryllis is widely known de
veloped from inch-wide parents of dull
and unattractive hue, to one of the most
gorgeous flowers that grows, nu-asun.ig