THE SHASTA DAISY 



than another is ready — there has never been 

 another plot of earth with such strange ex- 

 periences in the history of the world. 



In this act of transplanting, and indeed, in 

 every other act in these experimentations, the 

 utmost care is necessary. There is much work 

 which Mr. Burbank cannot delegate. Certain 

 things he can assign to others, but he will not 

 delegate any work to hands not in sympathy 

 and closest touch with Nature. The men to 

 care for this new field of daisies must be those 

 who not only know how deftly to remove 

 weeds, how to note and guard against all the 

 ills a plant falls heir to, but they must be men 

 of keen and intimate sympathy with the work 

 itself. The men who do this work are picked 

 men, picked among thousands. So very many 

 applications for work under Mr. Burbank are 

 made that he early gave up answering by per- 

 sonal letter, and printed forms are sent out, 

 kindly but clear. Many graduates of univer- 

 sities and colleges are among the number. 

 The very gentleness and modesty of the man 

 frequently have been misunderstood by these 

 young men fresh from their books ; and, liter- 

 ally running over with information, they have 



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