The Training of the Human Plant by Luther Burbank, 1st ed.

The Training of the Human Plant. Luther Burbank. The Century Co., New York. First edition, 1907. Very good hardcover with no dustjacket. Minimal wear to the cover. Pages are lightly tanned, unmarked, with a few pages with small stains. Deckled fore edge. Uneven bottom pages.

Paramahansa Yogananda dedicated Autobiography of a Yogi to the memory of Luther Burbank, “An American Saint.” When he visited Burbank in the 1920s at his home in Santa Rosa, California, the “saint amid the roses” gave him an autographed photo and copy of this small volume, which the guru read that night “with intense interest.” When Yoganandaji founded his East-West magazine, Luther Burbank contributed the article “Science and Civilization” to the first issue.