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plant breeders" are the great range of 

 his efforts, the extent of his experiments, 

 his keenness in perceiving shght varia- 

 tions and their meaning, and the rapidity 

 with which he brings results to light by 

 the grafting of seedlings on mature 

 stocks. Dr. Vernon Kellogg* has well 

 said that **the final and most important 

 factor of Burbank's success is the inher- 

 ent personal genius of the man, his in- 

 nate sympathy with nature, aided by 

 the practical education in plant biology 

 derived from thirty years of constant 

 study and experiment which enable him 

 to perceive correlations and outcomes of 

 plant growth which seem to have been 

 visible to no other man." 



I have called Burbank a botanist be- 

 cause he is one in the highest, the 

 original meaning of the word. But 

 Botany with all her sister sciences has 



•Scientific Aspects of Luther Burbank's Works. Popular Science 

 Monthly, October, 1906. 



