THE LUTHER BURBANK SOCIETY 



ences for which he was paying so dearly. Through- 

 out all those years of patient experiment, he 

 looked always to the day when the art of plant 

 improving would cease to be an oddity and 

 anomaly, and would take its just place as the 

 recognized leader of the useful arts, since every- 

 thing we eat and wear and have, in some measure, 

 depends upon the things we raise from the soil. 



He looked forward, always, toward the day 

 when every locality would have its plant experi- 

 menter, every state its men famous for their plant 

 transformations; and to that eventual day when 

 every farm must have its plot, large or small, de- 

 voted to the improvement of the things which give 

 it income. 



It is not at all to Luther Burbank's discredit 

 that only now, in 1914, instead of in the 90's or 80's 

 his formulae and experiences are being given to 

 the world. Nor is it to the discredit of the world 

 itself, for attempts to accomplish this result have 

 been many. 



It is rather to the credit of Luther Burbank, and 

 to the advantage of the world, that the promulga- 

 tion has been delayed, for, linked with Luther 

 Burbank's determination to give to the world his 

 methods and discoveries, was the equally firm de- 

 termination to make the presentation popular, 

 easily understandable, readily applicable, so that 



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