NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



While this test has been checked merely for 

 the reasons noted, it may be well here to say, 

 in answer to those wild and silly claims that, 

 from time to time, have been made by irre- 

 sponsible persons as to miracles 'performed 

 upon these great proving grounds, that Mr. 

 Burbank has never sent out to the world any 

 creation which was not, in so far as it was pos- 

 sible to make it, perfect, complete in all its 

 appointments, standing for just what it was 

 by him represented to be, nothing more nor 

 less. Should he at any time in the midst of a 

 great test, covering, it might be, a long term 

 of years, discover that the test was not going 

 to come out as he had hoped, he would be the 

 first to abandon it. He has been scrupulously 

 careful never to present to the world any pro- 

 duction in anything but its right light. I recall 

 passing by a florist's stand in the city of San 

 Francisco one day, and noticing prominently 

 displayed " Burbank 's new green carnation," 

 the product of a very ordinary white carna- 

 tion and a bottle of ink. Many such spurious 

 things have been exploited under his name, 

 and it will be worth while, when reading some 

 bizarre statement of his production of some 



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