. Complimentary banquet in honor of Luther Burbank. Burbank, Luther, 1849-1926; Plant breeding. c Complimentary Banquet to Luther Burbank Mr. Mills: Gentlemen :. This banquet was given in part to signal- ize the good fortune which has lately attended the career of our distinguished guest. The Carneige Institution, founded by an American philanthropist, has endowed the work of Mr. Burbank with one hundred thousand dollars, payable in ten equal annual installments. There is a high sense in which this munificence will redound primarily to the benefit of California. The species which Mr. Burbank w
. Complimentary banquet in honor of Luther Burbank. Burbank, Luther, 1849-1926; Plant breeding. c Complimentary Banquet to Luther Burbank Mr. Mills: Gentlemen :. This banquet was given in part to signal- ize the good fortune which has lately attended the career of our distinguished guest. The Carneige Institution, founded by an American philanthropist, has endowed the work of Mr. Burbank with one hundred thousand dollars, payable in ten equal annual installments. There is a high sense in which this munificence will redound primarily to the benefit of California. The species which Mr. Burbank will originate will have their first acclimatization here. He will do for this State, aided by the munificence of Mr. Carnegie, what the State should long ago have done for itself. When the snows of winter fall upon the high summits of the mountains, they are precipitated into the corrugated sides of the lofty summits, and are congealed into glaciers. When the genial sunshine, reinforced by the rains of spring- time, fall upon these glaciers, they make no answer back to the sun, but quietly disappear. They are melted into flow- ing streams, which, passing with torrential velocity down the declivity of the mountains, eventually emerge from the foot- hills and make their way the val- leys below. Here they summon into life the verdure, the fruits, the flowers and the harvests, and this verdure, these fruits, these flowers and these harvests never reproach the water which calls them into life and being for having once been held in the grip of winter at the frozen summits. WTien the enterprise, the commercial instinct, the business capacity and the selfishness, if you will, of man piles up for- tunes mountain high, the genial warmth of a philanthropic impulse thaws these glaciers and they flow through the channels of nobler achievement, and bring into being . 29 . .. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have
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