NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
up work which he has begun but which he has 
not the time to complete, and carry it forward 
for the adornment or the material welfare of 
the world. 
There is ample opportunity in the breeding 
of perfumes, as in other departments of his 
work, for others to go forward in the develop- 
ment of the more practical side. In all the 
initial experiments, however, this practical side 
is never lost to sight. He has a poet’s love for 
_ beauty and he has rare delight in adding to 
the charm of the world, but he bears along 
with this the intense practical nature of the 
shrewdest captain of industry. It is a cardi- 
nal principle of Mr. Burbank’s never to make 
a new creation without developing, so far as 
possible, its practical value. 
Speaking of the making of a blue rose,—he 
has already made a blue poppy,—he said that 
it was one of the easiest things in the world if 
one should set out diligently upon it, but it 
would consume very much time in the making 
and it would be doubtful, after all, if it added 
much to the charm of this rare flower. He has 
studied the rose with great care, and he has 
seen in the consideration of its coloring an 
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