Plant-breeding; comments on the experiments of Nilsson and Burbank . much larger, or even on an almost unHmited scale. Asan instance, I mention the AmarylUs. In the beginning, Burbank rented a small nursery nearSanta Rosa, and cultivated market flowers and small fruits,but had to look for work on other farms also, in order togain money enough for maintenance. It was only after 13years, in 1888, that he had saved enough to buy liis presentfarm. Here he organized a large nursery and soon accumu-lated a small capital, which enabled him to sell out his busi-ness, in the year 1890, and to devote hi
Plant-breeding; comments on the experiments of Nilsson and Burbank . much larger, or even on an almost unHmited scale. Asan instance, I mention the AmarylUs. In the beginning, Burbank rented a small nursery nearSanta Rosa, and cultivated market flowers and small fruits,but had to look for work on other farms also, in order togain money enough for maintenance. It was only after 13years, in 1888, that he had saved enough to buy liis presentfarm. Here he organized a large nursery and soon accumu-lated a small capital, which enabled him to sell out his busi-ness, in the year 1890, and to devote his whole Hfe to theintroduction and production of novelties. Three yearsafterward (1893) he pubhshed his first catalogue on NewCreations in Fruits and Flowers, which gained for hima world-wide reputation and brought him into connectionwith almost all the larger horticultural firms of the wholeearth. In 1905 he accepted the Carnegie grant and was appointedan honorary lecturer on plant-breeding at the Leland Stan-ford Junior University. Here he deUvers two lectures a. 163 i64 PLANT-BREEDING year before a score of advanced students and professors,illustrating his new creations by means of specimens andphotograplis, and explaining the experiments by wliich theywere won. In the meantime, the potato wliich he sold to had proved to be a great success. It had rapidlyincreased in importance and supplanted many of the oldercultures. According to an official statement of the UnitedStates Department of Agriculture at Wasliington made afew years ago, this Burbank potato is adding to the agricul-tural productivity of the country an annual amount of$17,000,000. In the eastern states it is cultivated alongsidewith other varieties and is often indicated by local namesinstead of Burbanks name. But along the Pacific Coast,from Alaska to Mexico, it is now the standard of excellenceamong potatoes. In fact, it is almost the only variety cul-tivated in Cahfornia, where the culture of po
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