NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
life that shall be better than the old, he is 
restive under rules. If such were imposed 
upon him, it would be but natural that he 
should at once proceed to break them, not so 
much for the delight of breaking them as a 
protest against conventionality. He does not 
start out among his flowers in the dawn of a 
spring morning with a book on botany in one 
hand and a treatise on plant-breeding in the 
other. Had he done so, there would have 
been no Luther Burbank. He utterly ignores 
much of what so-called scientists have set 
down. Nor does he depend upon scientific 
nomenclature unless it is sensible. In his 
conversations he is peculiarly free from scien- 
tific terminology; so direct and simple is his 
speech that the greatest scientist and an 
unlettered farm laborer may sit side by side 
and both understand. I cannot better illus- 
trate this than by a single word which I saw 
on a box high up in his storehouse of rare 
seeds and bulbs. The box contained seeds that 
for some reason had been carefully sterilized. 
The outside bore this word, written in bold 
letters: “Boiled.” 
This word bore a volume. 
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