NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
Then came a consideration of the plan 
books of Mr. Burbank, the most curiously 
interesting documents perhaps ever kept by 
a scientific man, a complete refutation in 
themselves of the doubter;—the professor 
had never heard of them. 
While these plan books were designed with 
no thought of scientific record as such, and 
are by no means such elaborate records as 
would have been kept had completeness been 
the aim, they are essentially and consistently 
scientific. They are a signal refutation of 
the contentions of a good many scientific men, 
who, like the university professor, have been 
unstinted in their praise of Mr. Burbank’s 
achievements, but who have been unable to 
see their way clear to admit him to their 
charmed circle. Truth to say, though, in 
passing, they were all unaware that he, like 
all really great men in science, dwelt apart, 
beyond the walls of precedent and far across 
the stagnant moat of mere scientific record. 
These plan books are a clear, adequate, 
comprehensive record of the chief events in 
the life history of every test of importance 
Mr. Burbank has undertaken. They are not 
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