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Published Saturday Morning, Twenty-five
Weeks in the Year, November to May, at
Pinehiirst, Moore County, North Carolina.
(Founded by James W. Tuftb)
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IITIIIHAY, APH1L 21, 1900,
The coming of May marks the begin
ning of the end of one of the most suc
cessful seasons in the history of the Vil
lage. When it is remembered that an
"open winter'' prevailed all through the
north until well along in March and that
most of the southern resorts have had
but "half a season," the fact that Pine
hurst has been crowded, as usual, is all
the more significant of the permanence
of its popularity. The demand for ac
commodations has, as for years past,
been far in excess of the supply, and
there has been no time during the season
months, January, February and March,
when the Village did not run ahead of
previous years.
More than ever before visitors have
come to be out of doors, and sports and
pleasures have never been more in evi
dence. Golf has claimed an increasing
number of devotees, tennis has held its
own, and riding, trap and pistol shooting
have interested an increasing number of
admirers. Health, happiness and good
cheer have been radiated and friends by
the hundred have returned home antici
pating the time when they may be privi
leged to come again. New posibilities
for development have been opened up
which the extensive plans for summers
work will provide for, and a permanency
to the character of the Village has been
added which makes a glympseat what
the future has in store for it a pleasing
picture.
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The Pinehurst Outlook with this is
sue, completes Volume IX and ceases
publication until next November. The
year has been a most important one in
the life of the paper, with a marked in
crease in subscription and advertising
patronage as its feature and many kind
things have been said of the enlargement,
improved general appearance and special
numbers. The future policy of the paper
will be as in the past, Progress, and
already plans for further extension are
under way, which will make The Out
look more indespensable than ever be
fore among its rapidly increasing circle
of friends.
I1UIUBANK, THE WIZARD.
Facts About the Man Who Works
Horticultural Miracle.
Xearly forty years ago a lad was at
work in a plough factory in Massachu
setts, where his uncle was superintend
ent. He had been employed but a very
short time when he invented a notable
improvement in the machinery. His
wages were multiplied by twenty-five,
and he was given every inducement to
stay.
But the same keen mind had seen the
possible improvement in the machines
saw a larger and more congenial field
wiiere few boys look for it. Young
Luther Burbank found improving ma
chines much less interesting than im
proving nature. So, having left the plough
company, he invented the Burbank po
tato when he was hardly out of his teens.
It is computed that in the thirty years
since it came into being the Burbank po
tato has added at least $20,000,000 to the
wealth of the United States. But Luther
Burbank got only enough to take him to
California, where he wanted to set up in
the nursery business.
In 1875 he settled at Santa liosa. His
nursery business grew to demand all his
time and thought, and this he was un
willing to give.
He therefore sold out his business at
the height of his success, and started ihe
Sebastopol experiment farm, which is
now known to horticulturists all over the
world as the scene of miracles of plant
magic. Without scientific education,
with no finely equipped laboratory,
without large conservatories even, he
takes a flowrer or fruit and shapes it at
his will. Plant life, he asserts and
proves is as plastic as clay in the hands
of the potter.
The walnut, for example, as he has
shown, can be made as thin-shelled as a
paper almond ; while its meat can be freed
from the tannin which now colors it and
made as white as a kernel of rice, lie
put the chestnut to school, and taught it
how to bear nuts eighteen months after
planting from the seed; he showed the
oxeye daisy how to bloom into a gor
geous flower five inches across, naming it
after Mount Shasta ; he took the yellow
Eschscholtzia and induced it to bloom in
silver, ruby and amethyst ; he changed
the blackberry to snowy whiteness : he
gave the plum the flavor of a Bartlett
pair, and made it stoneless ; he joined
plum and apricot to make the plumcot,
a totally new fruit; he enlarged the
French prune fivefold, and made it
sweeter ; he produced two new species of
edible berries, the phenomenal, from the
union of the native California dewberry
and the Siberian raspberry, and the
primus, from a union of the raspberry
and the blackberry.
As for side issues, such as the pine
apple quince, the tomato-potato, or po
mato, the banana plum, the fragrant dah
lia, the gladiolus, which blooms all round
its stem instead of on one side only, the
improvement of bulbs, the bestowal of
hardiness upon various hothouse flowers
and fruits, the giving of long-keeping
qualities to fruits for shipment, the pro
longing by months of early and late bear
ing varieties, and so forth, the list is too
long to mention fully.
"There seems to be hardly a plant,"
says one visitor to the farm, "which he
has not had for a time in his school and
given the benefit of his liberal education
to some extent."
The secret of his magic is, in some es
sentials, incommunicable. Only genius
can do what he has done. But genius
has been defined as an infinite capacity
for taking pains, and this side of it is
prominent at Santa Bosa. The patience
of it is marvelous. From 50 to 500 va
rieties of fruit, for example, are grafted
on to one tree for test. In producing the
primus berry, 5,000 seedlings, of various
crosses, were experimented with. In one
berry campaign 100,000 bushes were torn
up and burned in a single season, as not
having proved their right to live. It took
eight years of hybridization and selection
to evolve the Shasta daisy.
At present the magician is waving his
wand of patience over the spiky and for
bidding cactus, and commanding it to
drop its thorns and become as nutritious
a forage plant as the priceless alfalfa.
Already he has specimens as silky as a
lily leaf, so that they may be safely rubbed
against one's cheek. This has taken ten
years' work, but it will mean as much to
the arid lauds of America as the intro
duction of the potato meant to Europe,
for the cactus will grow luxuriantly in
the driest desert, and but for its thorns is
excellent fodder.
Unlike other experimenters, Mr. Bur
bank casts away as useless any produced
variety that cannot maintain itself under
ordinary conditions of cultivation. His
results are not freaks, but intensely prac
tical products.
Mr. Burbank has reaped no riches from
his marvelous achievements. Instead, he
has spent more than he can afford of his
hard-earned store to meet the demands of
his investigations, although dealers in
rare plant3 all over the world, from Eu
rope to Australia, eagerly wait to buy
each new creation from Santa liosa.
The California Academy of Science, in
May, 1903, struck a beautiful gold medal
in his honor, "in recognition of his noble
services to mankind." In December, 1904,
the Carnegie institution voted him a ten
years' allowance to carry forward his
work independent of commercial matters.
So, although he cannot afford to make
money, this endowment will give America
the benefit of the full genius of a man
who is not only able to maketwo blades
of grass grow where only one grew be
fore, but magically to transform its
growth to suit the needs of man Youth's
Companion.
Ilarg-ain jSla.
In tbe spring fair Gladys' fancy,
Spurning every thought of weeds,
Cutworms, hens or other troubles,
Lightly turns to garden seeds.
And she buys some bargain packets
Thirty kinds for fifteen cents,
And impatient waits till winter
Of his icy reign relents.
Then she hies her to the garden
On some warm, bright, sunny day,
And within its mellowed richness
Safely tucks her seeds away.
Hopeful Gladys ! Now she's happy,
Thinking Nature'll do tbe rest.
Some weeks hence she may discover
Bargain seeds are not the best!
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