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IN this autobiography Luther Burbank reveals what proved to be the driving force behind his amazing life when he wrote “Darwin made important and absolutely new findings with regard to pollenization and fertilization, but, when he made thorn and set them down, he left it to others to make the rules useful”. Burbank took it upon himself to be a pioneer among those “others”, and now “every schoolboy knows” how he rapidly built up now species of plants by selecting with a knife, a how, or a spade and bonfire rather than by allowing now forms to develop more slowly under the deadly environmental competition of Nature.
An Architect of Nature
Being the Autobiography of Luther Burbank. With Biographical Sketch by Wilbur Hall. (Thinker's Library, No. 76.) Pp. xvii + 139. (London: Watts and Co., 1939.) 1s. net.
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H., T. Biology. Nature 144, 896 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144896a0
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