NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



To one who gives even a cursory glance,- — 

 and this only at the practical side of this great 

 work, — this grant will appear to have been 

 splendidly bestowed. The value of it must 

 still more clearly come into view as the years 

 pass. It is to be doubted if the Institution ever 

 offers a subvention for a more commanding 

 purpose. The work is not only of supreme 

 interest to people in every walk of life, but it 

 is of transcendant commercial importance, as 

 well as having a powerful bearing upon the 

 welfare of the people. The results of this 

 work are not for the benefit of the Carnegie 

 Institution. They are not for Luther Bur- 

 bank. They are not for his state, or his coun- 

 try, but for all states and all countries, and 

 for all the centuries. And should it happen as 

 a result of this grant that some other man, or 

 men, shall be raised up who shall prove them- 

 selves worthy to carry on this great work 

 when he who has inaugurated it shall lay it 

 down, thus preserving continuity of effort, a 

 still greater boon will have been conferred 

 upon mankind. There is no other enterprise 

 in the world by which this may be measured. 

 It stands alone, unique among movements 



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