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? 



