THE NEW EARTH 



Perhaps more than any other man in the 

 world has Mr. Burbank, though not an agri- 

 culturist, taken part in this transformation. 

 He has worked with vital forces. He has gone 

 out beyond those who have done strange 

 things with electricity and chemicals into a 

 realm where throbbing life abounds. He has 

 dealt with life itself, seen and unseen ; he has 

 laid hold on this life, the marvelous life of 

 nature, and molded it to his own patterns. 



From him dates a new epoch in the plant 

 development of the world. His greatest work 

 ahead of him, he has yet accomplished more 

 than any plant-breeder in the world in the 

 way of the glorification and enrichment of the 

 earth. This may easily be proven by a glance 

 at his many lines of work, far too many for 

 enumeration here, as they embrace over two 

 thousand five hundred distinct productions 

 brought forth in the midst of exhaustive ex- 

 periments in every department of plant-life, 

 and by their suggestiveness, especially in the 

 amelioration of the race. He has been con- 

 structive from the very start, from the produc- 

 tion of the potato which bears his name and 

 which has been of such immense economic 



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