NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
all his powers,—judgment, discrimination, 
intuition, observation, scientific thought in its 
widest and deepest bearing, and the like,—and 
you have the ideal conditions for enterprise 
of the loftiest type. 
But in order that these larger results might 
be reached, larger revenues must be available 
to draw upon. It is this revenue that the 
Carnegie Institution has so wisely provided. 
The grants of the Institution are never 
charitable. It has no funds for indigents. It 
is intensely practical in its methods and in 
its administration of its funds. It places no 
money save where, directly or indirectly, its 
expenditure will bring an ultimate practical 
or scientific benefit. Doubtless much time 
might be saved to applicants for aid if this 
were more carefully considered. 
The practical side of the work will go 
forward under the grant precisely as it has 
gone on before during all the years of Mr. 
Burbank’s great work, save that its scope will 
be much broadened. Tests once impossible 
will now become possible. With a larger 
force of men trained in his methods he will, 
as the years pass, be able more and more to 
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