CHAPTER XX 
THE PLAN BOOKS 
T is doubtful if there is a single scien- 
tific man among the hundreds from this 
country and Europe, who have visited Mr. 
Burbank since his work became more widely 
known, or a single person among the many 
thousands of casual visitors, who ever heard 
of his plan books. 
In conversation with a university pro- 
fessor who was much interested in Mr. 
Burbank’s work, but who, in common with 
some others, doubted if he were “scientific,” 
this question was put to him by a layman: 
“If a man have great imagination, re- 
markable intuition, deep and wide knowledge, 
persistence, absolute sincerity; and if this 
man accomplishes what no other man or set 
of men has ever accomplished in a given 
department in the molding of old and the 
creating of new forms of life,—is this the 
furnishing of a scientific man?” 
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