NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
versation shifts he is in touch with every 
change, discussing some deep problem of 
human life or dissecting a pseudo-scientific 
foible, or illuminating a scientific thought 
some other man has cloudily expressed, or 
cutting into some current fallacy of modern 
education or politics or religion, making an 
excision as deft as it is scientifically accurate. 
He is as zestful as a skilful surgeon over some 
remarkable case when he dissects a limb or 
the main trunk of theology, and he scarcely 
considers anesthetics necessary in such an 
instance; but no man is more reverent in 
the presence of true religion. He is never 
happier than in a care-free romp with a merry 
child, but he meets the most distinguished 
scientist with the gravest dignity. 
In any discussion of his own work, Mr. 
Burbank likes best of all to have specific, 
definite questions asked. The answers come 
without hesitation and in clear, understandable 
language. From time to time, when he first 
began selling his new creations, he issued 
catalogues descriptive of new fruits and 
flowers. They were models of their kind and 
greatly enjoyed by people in all quarters of 
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