NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



all his powers, — judgment, discrimination, 

 intuition, observation, scientific thought in its 

 widest and deepest bearing, and the like, — and 

 you have the ideal conditions for enterprise 

 of the loftiest type. 



But in order that these larger results might 

 be reached, larger revenues must be available 

 to draw upon. It is this revenue that the 

 Carnegie Institution has so wisely provided. 

 The grants of the Institution are never 

 charitable. It has no funds for indigents. It 

 is intensely practical in its methods and in 

 its administration of its funds. It places no 

 money save where, directly or indirectly, its 

 expenditure will bring an ultimate practical 

 or scientific benefit. Doubtless much time 

 might be saved to applicants for aid if this 

 were more carefully considered. 



The practical side of the work will go 

 forward under the grant precisely as it has 

 gone on before during all the years of Mr. 

 Burbank's great work, save that its scope will 

 be much broadened. Tests once impossible 

 will now become possible. With a larger 

 force of men trained in his methods he will, 

 as the years pass, be able more and more to 



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