LUIHER BURBANK 



birds or animals — a lure to get them to eat the 

 fruit and carry the seed as far as they may to 

 another — a new — environment. 



Shall we wonder at the jumping bean and the 

 devil's claw when our own cherry tree is getting 

 the bees to give its offspring new heredities and 

 the birds to surround these heredities with new 



environments in which to grow? 



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Wherever we look we see a new display of 

 ingenuity — all for the sake of variation — variation 

 which may mean retrogression as well as advance- 

 ment — but such infinite variation that, surely, 

 there can be found one out of a thousand, or one 

 out of ten thousand, or one out of a million better 

 than those that went before. 



Every flower that delights our eye, and every 

 fruit which pleases our palate, and everj^ plant 

 which yields us a useful substance, is as delightful 

 as it is, or as pleasing or as useful as it is. simply 

 because of the improvement which has been made 

 possible through variation. 



— No two living things 

 are exactly alike. 



