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 . been kept of all details of anygiven series of experiments, beyond the more orless fallacious records of memory. Yet I have had the good fortune to produce, Isuppose, more forms of plant life that could justi-fiably be called new, than have been produced byany other single experimenter in our time. HadI stopped to make meticulous record of eachexperiment, I doubt if I should now know mor
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 . been kept of all details of anygiven series of experiments, beyond the more orless fallacious records of memory. Yet I have had the good fortune to produce, Isuppose, more forms of plant life that could justi-fiably be called new, than have been produced byany other single experimenter in our time. HadI stopped to make meticulous record of eachexperiment, I doubt if I should now know morethan I do about even my less important products,and I surely should have been able to produceonly a fraction of those that I have and Results Yet it must not be supposed that I have alto-gether refrained from graphic recording of theprogress of my tests. The fact is quite have kept in the aggregate a vast body of records,and have had them always at hand, under my eyefrom day to day, telling of the essentials of myhybridizing and other experiments. My plan books have been a constant aid tomemory, and guide to further effort. My record books have set down in black and [250]. _ c c2 -* ^ rt O 3 ~ S. 5 > , - -^ o ,o ,^3 8 «^ re £,T~torer I ^ O ^ LUTHER BURBANK white the unequivocal evidence of progress—orof failure to progress. Few salient facts as tothe precise parentage of important hybrids andthe exact methods by which variation has beenbrought about have failed to find explicit record,notwithstanding the omission of multitudes ofdetails that to some observers might have seemedworthy of transcription. And if I have adopted in the field shortcutmethods of recording selection, these have notlacked precision and accuracy, notwithstandingtheir time-saving character. In point of fact, all along the line I haveendeavored to strike a happy medium betweenthe waste of time that would result from thekeeping of unduly elaborate records, and thewaste of
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