NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
a fundamental education upon which he has 
builded by wide reading, he yet leads the 
scientific world in the department to which 
he has given his life. He has suffered as few 
men suffer, not only from actual physical 
want and privation but from the unjust criti- 
cism of those who did not comprehend; but 
he has preserved through it all an unshaken 
confidence in the ultimate triumph of all good 
forces in human life. He has been engaged in 
a line of work so novel and so profitable he 
could easily have built up a fortune, yet he 
has subjected himself all his life to the most 
rigid self-denial and sacrifice in order that 
every energy and every resource might be 
devoted to the betterment of the world. 
Luther Burbank was born in the town of 
Lancaster, Massachusetts, not far from the 
city of Boston, on the 7th of March, 1849. 
Two controlling streams met in the forming 
of the main current of his life. From his 
father, a cultivated man of English extraction, 
came an intense love for books; from his 
mother, whose ancestry was Scotch, an ardent 
love for all beautiful forms of life. These two 
hereditary influences have been at work all 
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