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talking about his plants. I remember little of what he said, probably because it was beyond my understanding, but I can see clearly the colors of his garden. Burbank worked miracles, literally improving on Nature. Father told me that one of his greatest achievements had been to develop a variety of cactus without thorns. I asked why that was important and he replied, "The cows can eat it." Burbank had almost no formal education. He worked like an alchemist rather than a scientist. Moving around among his plants, he would talk aloud to them. Perhaps he was able to communicate with them. Who can say?
Burbank claimed that he could communicate with his sister by telepathy. He was supposed to have said, "When I wish to summon my sister, I never wrote, telephoned or telegraphed. I simply sent a message telepathically, and she received it and understood it." I was told that scientists at the University of California heard about this and arranged a test. Burbank was given ten messages written by them, to transmit to his sister. She correctly recorded