PIECING THE FRAGMENTS 
OF A 
MOTION PICTURE FILM 
WeE Srorp To TAKE 
A BACKWARD GLANCE 
HEN you speak of environment as an 
active influence,” Mr. Burbank was 
asked, “do you mean the soil and the 
rainfall and the climate?” 
“Yes,” was the reply. “I mean those; but 
not only those; I mean, too, such elements of 
environment as the Union Pacific Railroad. 
“T will explain,’ Mr. Burbank continued. 
“Go out into the woods, almost anywhere in 
the United States, and hunt up a wild plum tree, 
and you will find that it bears a poor little fruit 
with a great big stone. 
“You see, the only purpose which the wild plum 
has in surrounding its seed with a fruit is to 
attract the animals so that they may carry it away 
from the foot of the parent tree and plant it in 
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