Luther Burbank, his methods and discoveries and their practical application; prepared from his original field notes covering more than 100,000 experiments made during forty years devoted to plant improvement . FINAL SELECTION is called upon to make nice distinctions betweenindividual seedlings of the same variety. All willhave the same general formation of stem and must look, then, for details of variationthat would altogether escape the notice of theuntrained observer. But that such differencesexist, and that they are signs that to the practicedeye are of the utmost importance, any su
Luther Burbank, his methods and discoveries and their practical application; prepared from his original field notes covering more than 100,000 experiments made during forty years devoted to plant improvement . FINAL SELECTION is called upon to make nice distinctions betweenindividual seedlings of the same variety. All willhave the same general formation of stem and must look, then, for details of variationthat would altogether escape the notice of theuntrained observer. But that such differencesexist, and that they are signs that to the practicedeye are of the utmost importance, any successfulplant experimenter can testify. It would obviously be futile to attempt adetailed description of the nice shades ofdistinction between various seedlings of the samerace upon which the plant experimenter dependsin forming his selective judgments. That, clearly,must be matter for practical observation. It canbe learned nowhere but in the field. But perhapstwo or three illustrations may be given that wallat least serve in a general way to suggest whatmanner of traits are taken into considerationwhen the plant experimenter is choosing theindividuals with which he is to continue hisexperiment. A Few
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