NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
insistently, aggressively awake, for here from 
dawn to dark a life of the most tense activity 
is lived where things must be done with the 
regularity of a machine and the persistence of 
the sun in its course. Here the field experi- 
ments are carried on, and here Mr. Burbank 
does his largest work. Flowers are raised here 
by the hundred thousand, by the half million 
indeed, waiting the eye of the master of them 
all who shall say what one out of all their vast 
number shall be saved. Here seeds of all 
manner of fruits are planted by the hundreds 
of thousands if needs be, apples, pears, peaches, 
quinces, nectarines, plums, prunes,— a list as 
long as the list of the world’s best known 
fruits. Here are long rows of young trees, 
hardly saplings in size, from two to five years 
old and from three to five feet in height, 
standing in serried rows so close to one an- 
other that the tiny branches intertwine. They 
will all be scrutinized one of these days, and 
the best of them all, one perhaps out of a 
hundred thousand, will be saved. The rest 
will be dug up and burned in great brush 
heaps. Sometimes there have been as many as 
fourteen of these huge heaps, comprising from 
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