NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
laws have been accepted by the scientific 
world. 
Over and over again, through a series 
of many years, dealing with millions of 
plants and upon a scale which dwarfs all 
other experimentation, Mr. Burbank has 
disproved these laws. In the street in front 
of his home in Santa Rosa stands a row of 
walnut trees, already referred to. These may 
be taken as a fair illustration of the manifold 
facts bearing on the points which have been 
developed by him. Instead of following any 
set proportion or ratio, the parental character- 
istics appeared in the children with absolutely 
no regard for law or even order, while many 
new characters. were developed. Thousands 
of different forms were assumed by the leaves, 
for example, absolutely unlike the forms 
of the parent leaves. The nuts which came 
from the new trees were often wholly unlike 
those of either parent ; indeed, very frequently, 
they were wholly different from any walnuts 
ever known before. Sometimes there were 
five leaves on a stem, sometimes twenty or 
thirty, sometimes fifty. Many assumed, too, 
a most delicious fragrance, a character wholly 
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