THE PLAN BOOKS 



as full or as complete as he could have wished ; 

 time was not given and money was not at 

 hand to provide for the recording of all the 

 interesting minor details. It must steadily 

 be borne in mind that this great work has 

 been carried on at a constant financial loss, 

 and that every available cent of money has 

 been required for the actual expenses of 

 the tests themselves. Still, in addition to all 

 the demands upon him, he has kept up these 

 plan book records year in and year out, 

 recording in them step by step the essential 

 larger details of the life he has been molding. 



While they are curiously constructed, as 

 unique as the man, they are definite, accurate, 

 indisputable, scientific, — the most devoted 

 adherent to scientific nomenclature could not 

 have been more conscientiously accurate. 

 Naturally, they were not made for the general 

 public. They form a private record of the 

 life history of the plants under test so pecu- 

 liarly constructed, even though absolutely 

 logical in their sequences, they would, in 

 great part, be unintelligible without inter- 

 pretation to any but the one who made them. 



Mr. Burbank is in the midst of a great 



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