NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
time to complete the special research entered 
upon.” 
It will thus appear that the Institution 
comes into particularly close consonance with 
the work which Mr. Burba~k had so long 
been carrying on under peculiar difficulties. 
The grant became available at the begin- 
ning of 1905. 
There are two important features, or phases, 
of Mr. Burbank’s work of which the Carnegie 
Institution takes special cognizance. One of 
these is its practical bearing upon the welfare 
of mankind. In a work so many- sided as this, 
the scope of this practical application is at 
once suggested,—how best to effect this 
practical application is of paramount im- 
portance. 
Many times in his career Mr. Burbank has 
been forced to abandon a given experiment, 
not because it did not promise to yield 
admirable results, but because he did not 
have sufficient funds to carry it forward. 
This was particularly true of those tests which 
he would have been glad to follow out because 
of the especial scientific interest that attached 
to their development. The actual expense 
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