LUTHER BURBANK 
Before us is a world of living, onward-march- 
ing plants—plants which have made, are making, 
and will continue to make, their own rules as they 
go along. Here, before us, too, is the propaganda 
of our subject with its maps, plans, charts, rules, 
laws, theories, beliefs, built up too fixedly, too 
arbitrarily, too superficially, perhaps, but very 
completely, nevertheless, around this onward- 
marching mass. 
Let us use to the utmost all the help that science 
can give; to save time, let us accept the laws and 
the rules, let us have confidence in the maps and 
the charts, until the plants themselves show our 
error. 
Let us search, always, for stored up heredities 
to convert to our use, just as we would seek stored 
up diamonds, or gold, or coal, instead of trying, 
by chemistry, to produce them. 
Let us realize, always, that everything is 
possible with time; but let us seek out all the 
short-cuts we can. 
For, after all, we have so little of Time! 
With time as our limiting factor, then, we shall 
find, in plant work, many things which we cannot 
hope to accomplish. 
We shall find plants, of course, of different 
species, and different genera—a surprising num- 
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