NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



unfortunate extension of aid to others less 

 deserving. 



While no one else save himself could pos- 

 sibly know how much aid would have meant 

 to him at times when, driven to the very limit 

 of physical and mental strain, he could see no 

 possible way over the financial obstacles that 

 confronted him, yet never in the course of his 

 life had he ever asked for aid from individual, 

 corporate body, state or nation. Time and 

 again foreign scientists or horticulturists 

 visiting Mr. Burbank expressed amazement 

 that no subvention had ever been made by his 

 government, because the vast importance of 

 the work was not less significant than the 

 wealth which must accrue to the state by pro- 

 vision of funds to carry the work forward on 

 larger lines. 



At last the whole subject was brought to 

 the attention of the trustees of the Carnegie 

 Institution at Washington. After a searching 

 consideration of the matter, an offer was made 

 of a subvention, or grant, it is understood of 

 one hundred thousand dollars, ten thousand 

 dollars per year for ten years. Briefly stated, 

 the object of this Institution, founded by 



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