NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
theories and laying out laws since the dawn 
of creation. To Mr. Burbank himself, with 
his highly organized, sensitive, intellectual life 
and his intense imagination, these subtle 
forces of Nature have been of absorbing 
interest. Through the light of experience he 
has seen with refined vision far into the 
strange, deep life whose outward manifesta- 
tions have been the field of his life- work. 
He has not studied in an extensive and 
expensive laboratory, nor confined himself 
to the comfortable atmosphere of a conserva- 
tory. In poimt of fact, he has had no 
laboratory at all, save that of the earth and 
the air and the sun. He has lived among no 
spectacular surroundings. He has had the 
seeds, he has had the generations of plants, 
he has had the earth; he has used these seeds 
and these plants and the earth as no man 
ever used them before. 
The result has been that not only has ne 
produced all these wonderful forms of life, 
but that, through the study of the inner 
life of Nature, he has arrived at conclusions 
radically different from some of those which 
may have been matured in the gentle atmos- 
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