LUTHER BURBANK 



structures, their tendencies, their habits, their indi- 

 vidual peculiarities, we can read their histories 

 back ages and ages before there were men and 

 animals read it, almost, as an open book; that 

 our plants have lived their lives not by quiet 

 rote and rule, but in a turmoil of emergency; 

 and, just as they have always changed with their 

 surroundings, so now, day by day, they continue 

 to change to fit themselves to new environments; 

 and that we, to bring forth new characteristics in 

 them, to transform them to meet our ideals, have 

 but to surround them with new environments not 

 at haphazard, but along the lines of our definite 

 desires. 



Is not the really 

 wonderful thing 

 the fact that the 

 plants grow at all? 



