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new flowers; he wanted to cross-breed and cross-ferti¬ 
lize and play tricks with pollen that he alone knew how 
to play. 
We have already spoken of some of the wonderful 
plants and flowers created by Burbank. It is said of 
him that he has done more in a generation in creating 
new and useful plants than Nature, unaided, could have 
done in a million years—more, indeed, than Nature, un¬ 
aided, would ever have accomplished. The flowers and 
fruits of California are less wonderful than the flowers 
and fruits which Mr. Burbank has caused to grow. 
Charles Darwin and Luther Burbank were very differ¬ 
ent kinds of men. Perhaps we ought not to call Luther 
Burbank “the man with the microscope,” because he 
spent very little time with books and microscopes; his 
days were spent in the garden working with his hands, 
and he gave to the world actual fruits and flowers which 
we can see and taste and enjoy. Darwin was the stu¬ 
dent, he was the real “man with the microscopehe 
too worked with his hands, but mostly with his brain,— 
and there was a very mighty brain behind that high 
forehead! 
Different men work in different ways to understand 
Nature and to help living things. Darwin was one, 
Burbank another; then there was the monk Mendel who 
planted and thought all alone in his convent garden; 
