NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
unfortunate extension of aid to others less 
deserving. 
While no one else save himself could pos- 
sibly know how much aid would have meant 
to him at times when, driven to the very limit 
of physical and mental strain, he could see no 
possible way over the financial obstacles that 
confronted him, yet never in the course of his 
life had he ever asked for aid from individual, 
corporate body, state or nation. Time and 
again foreign scientists or horticulturists 
visitng Mr. Burbank expressed amazement 
that no subvention had ever been made by his 
government, because the vast importance of 
the work was not less significant than the 
wealth which must accrue to the state by pro- 
vision of funds to carry the work forward on 
larger lines. 
At last the whole subject was brought to 
the attention of the trustees of the Carnegie 
Institution at Washington. After a searching 
consideration of the matter, an offer was made 
of a subvention, or grant, it is understood of 
one hundred thousand dollars, ten thousand 
dollars per year for ten years. Briefly stated, 
the object of this Institution, founded by 
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