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tions. ' ' These two lines correspond re- 

 spectively to Galton's two elements in 

 individual development, " Nurture" and 

 "Nature." 



Burbank worked for years alone, not 

 understood nor appreciated, and usually 

 at a financial loss, for his instincts and 

 aims were those of a scientist, not of a hor- 

 ticulturist. To have tried fewer experi- 

 ments, and those only along lines likely 

 to prove commercially valuable, would 

 have brought him money but not satis- 

 faction. In his way, he belongs to the 

 class of Faraday and the self-taught men 

 of the last generation who dealt steadily 

 with facts, while universities spent their 

 energies on fine points of grammar, and 

 a philosophy which, like an epiphytic 

 plant, had its roots in the air. 



My own first realization of Burbank's 

 scientific eminence came from Dr. Hugo 

 de Vries, botanist of the University of 



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