NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



while still fewer people may meet him 

 personally. 



In presenting this view of the new work 

 under way by Mr. Burbank, one is impressed 

 not only by its great significance but by the 

 variety of the tests in progress. It had been 

 Mr. Burbank's hope that, under the Carnegie 

 subvention, he might confine himself to fewer 

 tests, and, to a certain extent, this has been 

 effected, but, at the same time, while some 

 smaller tests have been temporarily set aside, 

 the scope of the new work has been greatly 

 enlarged. On his proving grounds at Sebas- 

 topol and Santa Rosa there are upwards of 

 three thousand distinct tests under way, em- 

 bracing more than a million plants coming 

 forward under the direction of the man who 

 has already brought so many commanding 

 tests to a successful end. 



In revisiting the proving grounds at Sebas- 

 topol, where the larger work is chiefly in prog- 

 ress, one is at once impressed by the widening 

 of the scope of the great enterprise. More 

 acres have been added, more men set at work, 

 better opportunites are offered for advancing 

 the tests to successful culmination. Even, if 



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