NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



up work which he has begun but which he has 

 not the time to complete, and carry it forward 

 for the adornment or the material welfare of 

 the world. 



There is ample opportunity in the breeding 

 of perfumes, as in other departments of his 

 work, for others to go forward in the develop- 

 ment of the more practical side. In all the 

 initial experiments, however, this practical side 

 is never lost to sight. He has a poet's love for 

 beauty and he has rare delight in adding to 

 the charm of the world, but he bears along 

 with this the intense practical nature of the 

 shrewdest captain of industry. It is a cardi- 

 nal principle of Mr. Burbank's never to make 

 a new creation without developing, so far as 

 possible, its practical value. 



Speaking of the making of a blue rose, — he 

 has already made a blue poppy, — he said that 

 it was one of the easiest things in the world if 

 one should set out diligently upon it, but it 

 would consume very much time in the making 

 and it would be doubtful, after all, if it added 

 much to the charm of this rare flower. He has 

 studied the rose with great care, and he has 

 seen in the consideration of its coloring an 



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