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The book that helped him to decide on his goal of life was Darwin’s “Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication”.

1. growing hundreds of varieties of apples — (✓) 

2. spending 15 years for a tree to bear fruits — (✗) 

3. Making a young plant yield fruit in a year or two — (✗) 

4. growing about 526 varieties of apples in an acre of his farm — (✗)

Grafting and budding are horticultural techniques used to join parts from two or more plants, so that they appear to grow as a single plant. In grafting, the upper part (scion) of one plant grows on the root system (root stock) of another plant.

An acre on his form Burbank grew several thousand different varieties of fruits. He grew 526 different types of apples on the same tree.

The weather in the State of California was mild, and the soil was rich and varied.

The name of the new variety of Potato plant grown by him was “Idaho Potato”.

The climate of his native place was not suitable for his work and he moved Massachusetts to the State of California because the weather was mild and the soil was rich and varied.

The experiments were based on three basic techniques. 

1. He would collect different kinds of domestic plants and bring in many foreign varieties of plants. When they were grown under different conditions, they would prove strong, plentiful or hard or else, show other desirable changes or new qualities. 

2. He grew many varieties of fruits, flowers and vegetables by changing water, food supply, temperature, light or space. Other variations were achieved by crossing plants, which had very dissimilar qualities. 

3. The third and the final technique was he could recognize and select the plants which showed desirable changes. He could also choose them for further experiments.

He called his new home as “The chosen spot” because the climate and the soil was most suitable for his experiment as far as nature was concerned.

Though many of his efforts ended in failure he did not loose his unending patience. His devotion was so deep and strong that nothing could disappoint him.

He was able to grow several thousands of different varieties of fruits. His wonderful achievements was made possible by grafting many twigs on a single tree. In this manner he was able to grow 526 different types of apples on the same tree. It was possible to save space to grow that the plants get fruits in just 2-3 years. Like this the grafting helped Burbank in his experimentation.

The monkey was first noticed in the village of Shettykere, a month ago.

Burbank improved the quality of cherry, a thorn less black berry, a cactus without thorns and Shasta Daisy was the beautiful flower among 73 new flowers.