NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



theories and laying out laws since the dawn 

 of creation. To Mr. Burbank himself, with 

 his highly organized, sensitive, intellectual life 

 and his intense imagination, these subtle 

 forces of Nature have been of absorbing 

 interest. Through the light of experience he 

 has seen with refined vision far into the 

 strange, deep life whose outward manifesta- 

 tions have been the field of his life-work. 



He has not studied in an extensive and 

 expensive laboratory, nor confined himself 

 to the comfortabLe atmosphere of a conserva- 

 tory. In point of fact, he has had no 

 laboratory at all, save that of the earth and 

 the air and the sun. He has lived among no 

 spectacular surroundings. He has had the 

 seeds, he has had the generations of plants, 

 he has had the earth ; he has used these seeds 

 and these plants and the earth as no man 

 ever used them before. 



The result has been that not only has ne 

 produced all these wonderful forms of life, 

 but that, through the study of the inner 

 life of Nature, he has arrived at conclusions 

 radically different from some of those which 

 may have been matured in the gentle atmos- 



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