. The Open court. pagation and distribution ; the savants,to study these fruits and flowers, some of which will be historic, asan entity, determine their relation to others, their characteristics,and scientific position ; and their author left to continue to secureas he has secured in the past for himself, maintenance of way. AllI have, all I am, he said to me once after refusing another of themany public financial endowments ottered him, T will give and givefreely, but can receive nothing that will impair my power to instinctively avoids what he calls the incubus of institutional- 3o8
. The Open court. pagation and distribution ; the savants,to study these fruits and flowers, some of which will be historic, asan entity, determine their relation to others, their characteristics,and scientific position ; and their author left to continue to secureas he has secured in the past for himself, maintenance of way. AllI have, all I am, he said to me once after refusing another of themany public financial endowments ottered him, T will give and givefreely, but can receive nothing that will impair my power to instinctively avoids what he calls the incubus of institutional- 3o8 THE OPEN COURT. ism. He declined the Carnegie fund five years ago, and, finally,after being relieved of some of the conditions with which the grantwas accompanied, he accepted it with misgivings. Now the connec-tion is dissolved. The Carnegie Foundation retires in the posses-sion of a great store of valuable facts, well tabulated, constituting asystematizing in exact record of data that have been heretofore indi-. THE AUSTRALIAN STAR FLOWER—BURBANK, vidua! and incommunicable. The ventilation of these should be morebeneficial to the public than the ulcerated reports of traveling cor-respondents. But sometime a nature-book will be printed, present-ing all the creations and introductions with pictures in color, theauthor telling the story in his own way. It will be interesting tolearn from his own speech how this solitary genius in a new landcontrasts the achievements of all the horticulturists in the older,highly-specialized civilizations. For this is what he is, a genius of horticulture. I hesitate touse the word because it has been conferred so indiscriminately. Somany wear its favor who never received the accolade. It has to dowith the way of working, rather than with results. Audacity, ad-venture, a new trail blazed, abandonment of landmarks, short cuts,the diameter across the circle—these are some of its to them an extraordinary impulsion, an obsessi
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