THE NEW EARTH 



new forms of life, to supplant inefficient ones 

 or to stand apart as unique additions to the 

 vegetable kingdom. He has primarily accom- 

 plished his work by a series of systematic 

 experiments covering, in each instance, periods 

 of many years ; though this is but the outward 

 manifestation of his activities. It speaks noth- 

 ing of the intense application, the wonderful 

 inventive powers by which he is enabled to 

 make selection of the one best of, say, a 

 hundred thousand plants, the patience, the 

 scientific searching for new truths, the con- 

 summate art in the blending of life forces 

 never before united. 



Mr. Burbank's life is many-sided, its facets 

 surpassingly brilliant. It is the diamond of a 

 supreme unselfishness. We may throw light 

 from but two of these facets for present pur- 

 poses, bringing forth, first, that he has never 

 wasted any time in the production of a fruit 

 or a flower merely for the sake of having it 

 said that he had done some unusual thing; 

 and, second, that he has accomplished all he 

 has done by dint of the utmost labor, weary- 

 ing, many times to the very last degree, often, 

 in his earlier years, in the stress of privation 



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