THE SHASTA DAISY 
than another is ready—there has never been 
another plot of earth with such strange ex- 
periences in the history of the world. 
In this act of transplanting, and indeed, in 
every other act in these experimentations, the 
utmost care is necessary. There is much work 
which Mr. Burbank cannot delegate. Certain 
things he can assign to others, but he will not 
delegate any work to hands not in sympathy 
and closest touch with Nature. The men to 
care for this new field of daisies must be those 
who not only know how deftly to remove 
weeds, how to note and guard against all the 
ills a plant falls heir to, but they must be men 
of keen and intimate sympathy with the work 
itself. The men who do this work are picked 
men, picked among thousands. So very many 
applications for work under Mr. Burbank are 
made that he early gave up answering by per- 
sonal letter, and printed forms are sent out, 
kindly but clear. Many graduates of univer- 
sities and colleges are among the number. 
The very gentleness and modesty of the man 
frequently have been misunderstood by these 
young men fresh from their books; and, liter- 
ally running over with information, they have 
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