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THE GUIDE T< > NATURE 



fORRESPONDENCE 



— *- Information^ 



AND 



The Carnegie Institution's Injury to 

 Mr. Burbank. 



Santa Rosa. I al. 

 To the Editor: — 



The article which you have in regard 

 to my joys, troubles and work am quite 

 sure will be interesting to your read- 

 ers, and is most certainly so to me, and 

 1 am sure that in due time you will he 

 \rr\ glad that you published these 

 words, for I have many friends as I 

 have learned of late who know that the 

 work of envy and jealousy is of short 

 duration, and I have been troubled by 

 nothing" else. 



< If course in having to wholly revo- 

 lutionize my work to make it commer- 

 cial instead of scientific have been 



obliged to make radical changes in all 

 my plans in every respect, at an ex- 

 pense of many thousand dollars in cash 

 and many more in loss of plants, but 

 during the last eight months have got- 

 ten things into good order after the 

 storm, and if any public institution 

 undertakes to meddle witli my affairs 

 again it will In- after 1 am unable to 

 attend to my own business, which I 

 was doing in a most splendid and sat- 

 isfactory way to myself and everybody 

 else before the interference of the Car- 

 negie Institution and the envy and 

 jealousy which it brought forth. 



With most hearty kind wishes. I re- 

 main, as always. 



Faithfully yours, 



Luther IJurbank. 



THE BURBANK TIloUXI.KSS CACTI'S. 

 Photographed by Edward F. Bigelow, at Santa Rosa, California. 



