LUTHER BURBANK 



that has caused him annoyance; but so abso- 

 lutely temperate is his life that he has always 

 been able to recuperate when the long strain 

 of some protracted test has ended. He has in- 

 finite patience, the rarest intuition, never yield- 

 ing to discouragements, never led into torpor 

 by the splendid series of triumphs that have 

 attended his course. 



The New Earth of today is his debtor be- 

 yond words; tomorrow his service shall be of 

 far greater significance, for in all that Mr. Bur- 

 bank does it is the future that reaps great- 

 est. It has been many years since he created 

 the potato, for instance, which bears his name, 

 and it has been steadily adding millions of 

 dollars to the national wealth. So, with many 

 of his creations, their development comes with 

 the years. It is only about twelve years since, 

 in 1893, he gave up a large and lucrative nur- 

 sery business in order to devote his entire time 

 to the production of new creations, and to 

 educate the world, so to speak, to its possibili- 

 ties in this line, and very many of his produc- 

 tions, so long the time required to fit a fruit 

 or a flower or a vegetable for the world, are 

 barely coming into use. There are no measure- 



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