HIS PLACE IN THE WORLD 



has produced more new plant-life, fruits, ,/ 

 grasses, trees and flowers, than any other 

 man who has ever lived. He has done with 

 an intelligent purpose, clearly grasping its 

 end and on a large scale, what a few have 

 done accidentally or capriciously, on a small 

 scale. He comes nearer to being what may ., 

 be called a creative mind in the product of 

 organic growth than any other scientific 

 worker on record. . . . His name is bruited 

 today all over the civilized world. Hundreds 

 of able experimentalists are no doubt eagerly 

 following in the path he has blazed. What 

 science will accomplish, thus set in motion, 

 the wildest imagining may easily fail to 

 grasp. The reflex of all future achievement 

 will throw back its glory to brighten Burbank's 

 aureole, for he will have been the master 

 and protagonist. Is it too much to say that 

 among the great benefactors of their race 

 Luther Burbank will be unique in the splendor 

 of his monument? That can never crumble 

 while sunshine, air and soil carry on their 

 chemistry." 



Hugo de Vries, the Dutch botanist, when 

 in this country in 1904, said of Mr. Burbank 



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