An Important New Volume in Plant Genetics 



John M. 

 Coulter 



Professor of 

 Botany 

 in the 



University of 

 Chicago 



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OF 



PLANX 

 BREEDING 



The Fundamentals of Plant Breeding 



The most fundamental material problem that confronts 

 the American people is the problem of food production, and 

 it is of interest to know what is being done toward solving it. 

 Along with the development of scientific plant breeding, there 

 has developed also an increasing knowledge of the soil, which 

 in most of the history of agriculture has been treated empir- 

 ically. The result is that it is possible now to obtain results 

 from plants which were never dreamed of in the older agricul- 

 ture. It is the purpose of this book to give an account of 

 these possibilities. It is very fully illustrated, and not only shows 

 what has been done in plant breeding, but also the changes 

 and improvements made by careful scientific cultivation. 



The work should appeal not only to practical farmers and 

 teachers and students of agriculture, but to every citizen 

 interested in the growing of plants and the revolution in plant 

 breeding. 



"A very good presentation of the elements of plant breeding 

 as they are understood at the present time." — Mr. J. J. Shaw, 

 Research Pomologist, Massachusetts Agricultural College. 



"The work is very timely and acceptable, and presents its 

 subject in a capable manner and from a positive point of 

 view." — Scientific American. 



D. APPLETON AND COMPANY : Publishers : NEW YORK 



GENETICS LITERATURE 



THE annual reports of the American Breeders' Association, published in 

 seven volumes, form the most valuable collection of material for students of 

 genetics which has been published in the United States. Most of them are 

 out of print and are becoming very valuable. All of them are nearly indispensable 

 to libraries, institutions and students of plant and animal breeding, heredity, 

 variation, eugenics, or genetics in general. 



The Association still has on hand a limited number of copies of two of these 

 reports, which it offers for sale. 



Vol. VI, Proceedings A. B. A. (1910), contains 465 pages. Illustrated. It 

 includes 80 papers on general genetic subjects, and among the contributors are 

 practically all the leaders in this study in the United States. Issued at $2, now 

 offered for $1. 



Vol. VII, Proceedings A. B. A. (1911), and Vol. VIII (1912), bound in one 

 volume of 593 pages, illustrated, and including 73 monographs on the most vital 

 and interesting features of genetics. Issued at $3, now offered for $1.50. 



The volumes are substantially bound in cloth and will be sent post-paid on 

 receipt of price. 



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