422 The Jolrxal of Heredity 



The BenK'al t>-pc. which reproduces roses are not ahva>-s fertile even though 



itself by seed, unless it has been hybri- perfect in appearance, their fecundation 



dized, and which is very remontant, having apparently, but not actually, 



seems rarely to communicate its remon- succeeded. For this reason one must try 



tant character to the roses which result various ])ollens, when one is certain that 



from its crossing. If thev show, it is the mother is fecund with her own pol- 



only after repeated crosses! Icn, for she does not always accept the 



As has been said, the seeds of h\-brid first pollen offered. 



Material for Plant Breeders. 



Plant breeders actually engaged in experimental work in the United States, and 

 desirous of obtaining material for use in their breeding experiments, are reminded 

 that the Office of Foreign Seod and Plant Introduction of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, Washington, D. C, makes it part of its business to secure such material 

 from any part of the world. Many thousands of sp3cies are brought in each year, 

 and inventoried, and the most important are described in monthly mimeographed 

 leaflets issued by that office. Bona-fide breeders who are not now in receipt of 

 these, but desire to receive them, with a view to securing material for work in their 

 experiments, may secure the leaflets regularly by writing to the Agricultural 

 Explorer in Charge, at the address above. 



Dysgenic Philanthropy. 



It is a fact, disguise it as we will, that we have taxed ourselves to support institu- 

 tions which have resulted in increasing, not decreasing, the number of the unfit. 

 We have before us an immediate dutv, of tremendous importance, m canng for 

 our unfit; in seeing to it, by adequate legislation, that the insane, the habitual 

 criminal, the feeble-minded and similar classes are permanently segregated, so that 

 thev cannot reproduce their kind to be a further burden upon the nation, and that 

 the' marriage of those whose offspring will be unfit shall be i^reven ted.— Robert 

 DeC. Ward: The Crisis in our Immigration Policy (Inst. Quar., IV, 2, 1913). 



Eugenics and Immigration. 



A democracy can not endure unless it be composed of able citizens; therefore it 

 must in self-defence withstand the free introduction of degenerate stock.— Francis 

 Galton. 



The Problem of the Feebleminded. 



In these simi)le and ])raetieal ways -loy si)eeially training the feeble mincled, by 

 confining them in suitable institutions and colonies, and by voluntary sacrifice of 

 procreative power by those who are able to work in the world— we shall be able, 

 even in a single generation, largely to remove one of the most serious and burden- 

 some taints ill our civilization, and so mightily work for the regeneration of the 

 race.— Havelock Ellis: The Problem of Race Regeneration (1911). 



