NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
breeding upon all people is its distinct moral 
influence. 
No man, he holds, can be a successful plant- 
breeder and practice deceit. He stands face to 
face with Nature, who never lies. No man, as 
he puts it, can come close to the heart of 
Nature and see how absolute is her honesty, 
never for a moment deviating a hair's breadth 
from the line of truth, and not be made a 
more honest man for the contact. In short, 
beyond all spirit of ethics, a man, he puts it, 
must be an honest man or he will never 
succeed at plant-breeding;—if he is not an 
honest man when he begins, Nature will 
make him so or drive him out of it. 
So there are five cardinal points in Mr. 
Burbank’s argument for the extension of plant- 
breeding among people of all classes: 
1. The possibilities in the creation of new 
flowers and vegetables of surpassing value. 
2. The intense fascination of the work, not 
only giving delight but broadening and 
deepening any life which takes it up. 
3. The opportunity for the production of 
flowers and vegetables which shall have a 
distinct commercial value. 
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