. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igiS. The American Florist. 183 the garden is able to make a definite appeal to many. Such an institution, with the various enterprises referred to, is naturally expensive to maintain and it is impossible to do all in any one department that might be desira- ble. However, it is believed that the income will eventually be sufficient to support the various projects now un- der "way and that ultimately the Mis- souri botanical garden will become an even greater monument to the greatest patron of botany and horti
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igiS. The American Florist. 183 the garden is able to make a definite appeal to many. Such an institution, with the various enterprises referred to, is naturally expensive to maintain and it is impossible to do all in any one department that might be desira- ble. However, it is believed that the income will eventually be sufficient to support the various projects now un- der "way and that ultimately the Mis- souri botanical garden will become an even greater monument to the greatest patron of botany and horticulture that this country has ever known. Burtank's Superwheat. If Luther Burbank has developed a "superwheat," that will be, after a fashion, an answer to the "supercan- non" of the Germans, the news of his achievement is good and important news. But in spite of all that Mr. Bur- bank has done in the way of improving trees and lesser plants, announcements made by him are not received by every- body as promising a revolution in any domain of agriculture. That he is a man of genius in his own line is ad- mitted with only here and there a mur- mur of dissent, but that is largely be- cause, on the one hand, he does not follow the methods of orthodox science in making his experiments, and, on the other, because the commercial exploita- tion of his discoveries has not always been such as to commend itself to the part of the public attentive to such matters. In criticism of Mr. Burbank person- ally, however, nobody has a word to say, and it may very well be that he has evolved a strain of wheat better than any hitherto known. To increase the yield and quality of this most pre- cious of all the cereals would be a bene- fit to the world to which few, indeed, would be comparable in value. The present record of the United States as a wheat grower is wonderful as re- gards quantity, but our average pro- duction per acre is not at all creditable either to our intelligen
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