"Grown Folks at School" - Hugo de Vries in California 1904

"Group of Distinguished Professors
in the Botanitcal Gardens of the University of California"
There was Professor Arrhenius, Professor de Vries,
Professor Hilgard, Dr. Loeb, Professor Wickson,
Dr. Loughridge, Miss Palmer, Dr. MacCallum,
Henri T.A. Hus, Dr. Osterhout, Arnold Stubenrauch 

From "Grown Folks at School; Interesting and Significant Results of the Recent Summer Session, University of California " in Sunset Magazine, November 1904.
























Hugo de Vries, Professor of Botany, University of Amsterdam:

"I have noticed that there is a mighty upheaval of effort in California but not in all cases is it well directed. The agricultural and horticultural interests should profit more by what others have learned. Then the farmers would get the most out of this magnificently rich state. You need more co-operation and reciprocity. The farmers and fruit growers should follow more closely the work that is being done by the agricultural department of the university also the work of such men as Luther Burbank of Santa Rosa and Roeding of Fresno. We have no man in Europe today that can compare with Burbank.

"I have traveled quite extensively over California during the last six weeks visiting Imperial Fresno, the Big Basin, Santa Cruz, Riverside, Santa Rosa, Santa Clara, and San Bernardino. Within the last few years the people of Europe have had an introduction to California through her fruits. California fruits have a good market in my home country, Holland. Some years ago nothing was heard of California; now its fruit is in considerable demand being sweeter than the European fruit. I would say to the farmers of the state that their ultimate success depends upon closer attention to scientific agriculture and horticulture. The summer school has been a success. The instruction has been carried on along broad lines. In my particular department there has been a great deal of interest. I trust that what I have done will have a large influence.

Anticipating Hugo de Vries visit to Burbank, February 15, 1904

A dinner in 1904 with Hugo de Vries, David Starr Jordan, and mention of an "evolution grove" in
The Emergence of Genetic Rationality: space, time, and information in space, time, and information in American biological science, 1870-1920, by Philip Thurtle.

Hugo visits Luther Burbank in August 1905 as recorded by Popular Science.

George Roeding visits Hugo de Vries in August 1912 in Amsterdam.

David Starr Jordan's preface to 1921 Burbank How Plants are Trained for Man and mentions 1904 visit.

Hugo de Vries in Minneapolis Journal in 1904. He was to go to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

Burbank mentioned to Etter about Hugo de Vries. Apparently Etter wrote about him prior to this article. Find this. Humboldt Times December 4, 1908 ALBERT ETTER, WELL KNOWN HORTICULTURIST OF SOUTHERN HUMBOLDT, TELLS OF VISIT WITH BURBANK AT SANTA ROSA