PLANTS AND MEN 
Amaryllis has twelve-inch blossoms. The Tigri- 
dias is suectacular, the blue Poppies are odd and 
there are many extraordinary Lilies. 
The substitute for Grass developed by the 
California naturalist thrives through the most 
severe drought and so is of practical economic. 
value. His improved Walnut Trees grow to a 
large size in a few years and his Chestnuts bear 
abundant crops when they are mere _ bushes. 
Spineless Cactus is a very valuable creation. 
All these results are obtained in what seems 
to be a very simple way, yet their successful 
outcome is only made possible by the mind of 
genius working with infinite patience over long 
periods of years. To select out of a group of 
plants a few individuals which show excep- 
tional quality of a desirable type; to save the 
seed of these favoured few and make further 
selections among their progeny; to couple with 
this the cross-pollenizing of different varieties 
or species showing a tendency to greater varia- 
tion or accentuation of characteristics—all this 
may seem only high grade garden practice, 
but only one man in two or three generations 
has the exceptional and sympathetic perceptive 
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