Close-up of a specimen of Luther Burbank's famous thornless cactus, ca.1920

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Title	Close-up of a specimen of Luther Burbank's famous thornless cactus, ca.1920
Description	Photograph of a close-up of a specimen of Luther Burbank's famous thornless cactus, ca.1920. The plant is shown on dark background.; "Luther Burbank's Methods: How is the human brain going to acquire in a lifetime all knowledge and wisdom? That is my question. When I met Luther Burbank, he showed me a walnut tree, and he said, 'I took off more than one hundred years from its usual period of growth. I grew that in twelve years.' And you could see the tree bearing walnuts! He made almonds have soft shells, made over the tomato, and created the Shasta daisy from bulbs, and the cactus without thorns. In primitive times the different animals used to eat the cactus, so the cactus developed thorns. When one life begins to hurt another life, that life develops weapons of defense. Burbank went into the garden, looked at the cactus, and every day began to talk to the cactus. 'Please, beloved Cactus, I am Luther Burbank, your friend; I don't mean to hurt you. I am not going to hurt you at all, so why develop thorns?' And so the thornless cactus was developed by talking, by attention, by his knowledge of Nature's laws." -- by Swami Yogananda, Inner Culture, October, 1935.; "I have no frozen samples yet, but you can count on me doing this and finding the results. I was taught how to do these years ago with water. Plants were fed this water and grew bigger and healthier than their identical neighboring plants. We were in Santa Rosa, California at the Luther Burbank greenhouse and gardens. We saw not only where he did his work, but stood in front of a thornless cactus, which he had talked to, and nurtured so that the cactus became thornless because of the trust it no longer needed to protect itself. If this worked to such a degree in this instance, then I am sure you will find positive effects in similar food/plant related soothing/positive/prayerful intervention from human to plant species." -- unknown author.
Subject (file heading)	Botany -- Cacti
Subject (lcsh)	Cactus
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	circa 1920
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	circa 1920
Type	images
Format	glass plate negatives
Format (aacr2)	2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Format (aat)	photographic prints photographs
Contributing entity	California Historical Society
Accession number	5534
Call number	CHS-5534
Microfiche number	1-77-66
Legacy record ID	chs-m1507; USC-1-1-1-14203
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Part of subcollection	Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Project	USC
Rights	Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-5534
Archival file	chs_Volume28/CHS-5534.tiff

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