NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



time to complete the special research entered 

 upon." 



It will thus appear that the Institution 

 comes into particularly close consonance with 

 the work which Mr. Burba^k had so long 

 been carrying on under peculiar difficulties. 



The grant became available at the begin- 

 ning of 1905. 



There are two important features, or phases, 

 of Mr. Burbank's work of which the Carnegie 

 Institution takes special cognizance. One of 

 these is its practical bearing upon the welfare 

 of mankind. In a work so many- sided as this, 

 the scope of this practical application is at 

 once suggested, — how best to effect this 

 practical application is of paramount im- 

 portance. 



Many times in his career Mr. Burbank has 

 been forced to abandon a given experiment, 

 not because it did not promise to yield 

 admirable results, but because he did not 

 have sufficient funds to carry it forward. 

 This was particularly true of those tests which 

 he would have been glad to follow out because 

 of the especial scientific interest that attached 

 to their development. The actual expense 



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