LUTHER BURBANK 



but he is preeminently the man of science, at 

 the same time, continually adding to the total 

 of human knowledge, continually exploring 

 regions before unmapped. He has worked 

 with a million plants if needs be in a single 

 test, so that he has had incomparable oppor- 

 tunities for observation. It was in recognition 

 of this dual character of his work, and of the 

 enormous possibilities stretching out before 

 it in each line, that the Carnegie Institution 

 of Washington offered him a grant of one hun- 

 dred thousand dollars for the ten-year period 

 beginning with 1905. By means of this grant 

 Mr. Burbank will be enabled to carry on his 

 work on a very much larger scale, both as to 

 its practical character and in the interests of 

 science. The subvention came to him unasked 

 it was accepted as it was offered in the spirit 

 of service to man. 



Among the most important of Mr. Bur- 

 bank's creations, from the point of view of the 

 New Earth, are a new series of hybrid thorn- 

 less, edible cacti, by means of which the desert 

 places of the earth are to be reclaimed; the 

 new fast-growing trees which will aid in 

 rapidly re-foresting denuded areas; the long 



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