LUTHER BURBANK 
birds or animals—a lure to get them to eat the 
fruit and carry the seed as far as they may to 
another—a new—environment. 
Shall we wonder at the jumping bean and the 
devil’s claw when our own cherry tree is getting 
the bees to give its offspring new heredities and 
the birds to surround these heredities with new 
environments in which to grow? 
Wherever we look we see a new display f 
ingenuity—all for the sake of voriation_-v an 
which may mean retrogression as well as advance- 
ment—but such infinite variation that, surely, 
there can be found one out of a thousand, or one 
out of ten thousand, or one out of a million better 
than those that went before. 
Every flower that delights our eye, and every 
fruit which pleases our palate, and every plant 
which yields us a useful substance, is as delightful 
as it is, or as pleasing or as useful as it is, simply 
because of the improvement which has been made 
possible through variation. . 
—No two living things 
are exactly alike. 
