ONE OF VAN FLEET'S CLUSTERED CHINQUAPIN HYBRIDS. 



Produced by a cross made by Dr. Van Fleet on his home place at Little Silver, N. J.; an 

 example of the fact that the plant breeder wants his plants growing close beside his house. 

 (Fig. 8.) 



ents, the offsj^rin^ of which is to be 

 propagated by buds or cuttings and 

 later cover whole hillsides with superb 

 fruit trees or by seed like the Marquis 

 wheat and stretch away to the hori- 

 zon — one level plain of perfect wheat 

 heads. 



I stood under a flowering spray of the 

 Van Fleet rose last summer, and the 

 president of the Rose Society said to me, 

 "1 am propagating a million plants of 

 Van Fleet's roses this year. Van Fleet 

 has produced some of the greatest 

 climbing roses of this country." 



It was my thought in writing this 

 article that the readers of the Journal of 

 Heredity might like to know that Doctor 

 Van Fleet, the recognized breeder of 



roses has gathered a practical working 

 collection of plants around him and 

 in six years built up a place which 

 should be an inspiration to any breeder 

 and which illustrates what I am ad- 

 vocating, the establisliment of such 

 places by pul^lic agencies, wherever the 

 individual plant enthusiast can be found 

 who will utilize them and make them 

 cflective. 



The Office of Foreign Seed and Plant 

 Introduction can furnish the plants, the 

 breeder can furnish the land, the govern- 

 ment should provide the greenhouse and 

 the labor and propagate and distribute 

 the resulting hyljrids to the commercial 

 nurseries and proven cultivators of the 

 country. 



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