HIS PLACE IN THE WORLD 
has produced more new plant-life, fruits, 
grasses, trees and flowers, than any other 
man who has ever lived. He has done with 
an intelligent purpose, clearly grasping its 
end and on a large scale, what a few have 
done accidentally or capriciously, on a small 
scale. He comes nearer to being what may. 
be called a creative mind in the product of 
organic growth than any other scientific 
worker on record. . . . His name is bruited 
today all over the civilized world. Hwuindreds 
of able experimentalists are no doubt eagerly 
following in the path he has blazed. What 
science will accomplish, thus set in motion, 
the wildest imagining may easily fail to 
grasp. The reflex of all future achievement 
will throw back its glory to brighten Burbank’s 
aureole, for he will have been the master 
and protagonist. Is it too much to say that 
among the great benefactors of their race 
Luther Burbank will be unique in the splendor 
of his monument? That can never crumble 
while sunshine, air and soil carry on their 
chemistry.” 
Hugo de Vries, the Dutch botanist, when 
in this country in 1904, said of Mr. Burbank 
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