The incident is comical enough, but it was not so humor- 

 ous to Mr. Burbank at the time when his only consolation 

 was the hope of proving to the world that his hopes were 

 not the useless dreams of a visionary, but definite ideals 

 the realization of which would raise mankind a step higher 

 in civilization and actualize its divinity in a more complete 

 sense. 



Burbank's work stands now before the world and needs 

 no further recommendation. He found out by experience, 

 that to be a business man is one thing and to work for an 

 ideal is another. He found that the business part had to be 

 neglected for the sake of accomplishing the great task so 

 near to his heart, and for this purpose Mr. Carnegie has 

 come to his assistance by keeping a scientific station in Santa 

 Rosa and aiding his work in general. Much has been writ- 

 ten on Mr. Burbank, but mostly in a popular way by literary 

 authors. Professor de Vries, however, has done justice 

 to the significance of his labors from the scientific stand- 

 point in his new book on Plant Breeding. p. c. 



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