LUTHER BURBANK 



perhaps, without intervention at all, the same 

 result might have been attained. 



From the fern at the water's edge, to the apple 

 tree which bears us luscious fruit from the oyster 

 that lies helpless in the bottom of Long Island 

 Sound, to the human being who rakes it up, and 

 eats it every different form of life about us may, 

 thus, be traced to the experiments which Nature 

 is continually trying, in order to improve her 

 creations. 



As to the question so often asked, monkeys are 

 no more turning into men than golden-yellow 

 poppies are turning into crimson, white or fire- 

 flame poppies. 



In monkeys, as in men and poppies and quartz 

 crystals there is ever present the tendency to 

 break away from the kind, yet Nature is always 

 alert to prevent the break unless it demonstrates 

 itself to be an advance, an improvement from 

 occurring. 



She gives us, all of us, and everything 

 individuality, personality unfailingly, always at 

 the same time preserving in each the general 

 characteristics of its kind. 



Yet all the time she is creating her freaks 

 and "sports" all the time she is trying new 

 experiments most of them doomed to die unpro- 

 ductive with the hope that the thousand freaks 



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