NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



ular qualities, something brilliantly different ; 

 it must have abiding qualities, excellencies that 

 lift it above all others, permanence. Nor does 

 it matter to him how fine the ones that may 

 have preceded it have been ; the new one that 

 is better must supplant them and inevitably 

 will do so. 



Just a word here as to some of the past pro- 

 ductions of Mr. Burbank. It is so easy to for- 

 get. It is also convenient, sometimes. It some- 

 times becomes easy for a party possessing one 

 of Mr. Burbank's productions to forget who 

 made it, possibly it may be purposely given a 

 name identifying it in some way with some- 

 body who had no more to do with it than the 

 prophet Jeremiah. In this way, in past days, 

 many of the creations which he has brought 

 out have never in any way been placed to his 

 credit. Only the other day I chanced upon a 

 current magazine article giving somewhat in 

 detail the wonderful productiveness and gen- 

 eral excellence of two of Mr. Burbank's berries. 

 One of them was the Phenomenal berry de- 

 scribed in another chapter, an absolutely new 

 creation, one of the great triumphs of scientific 

 plant-breeding, the other the really wonderful 



