knowledge. From this time onward I worked systematically 

 with crosses, making an endless number, and carefully preserving 

 records of the sizes of plants and flowers used. As the seedlings 

 bloomed they demonstrated more and more clearly that I was 

 on the right path, and certain of the crosses gave me an inkling 

 of the method used for increasing size, though it took thousands 

 of crosses and about fifteen years of time to perfect the actual 

 laws I herewith submit; these laws accomplish by short, direct 

 method what it would take Nature thousands and hundreds of 

 thousands of years to do in a natural way . 



EXPLANATION OF DIAGRAM 



Sizes A and B in Figures i, 2 and 3, are intended to represent 

 the comparative sizes of sex parents of flowers, fruit or grain con- 

 cerned in fertilization. Size C represents the size of the resulting 

 offspring. Each figure represents but one fertilization ; by using 

 new parents derived from the offspring C the process can be con- 

 tinued indefinitely. 



The first or declining way: reduction of size. 



Size A Figure i shows a small pollen parent, one- half the 

 size of the ovule parent B. Under such a condition the resulting 

 offspring c will be one-half the size of the pollen-bearing parent A. 



It is to be noted that in case the pollen-bearing parent A were 

 smaller than the ovule parent B, but more than one-half its size, 

 the ofl^spring C would be proportionately larger; on the other 

 hand, if A is less than one-half the size of B, then C will be propor- 

 tionately smaller than shown in the diagram. Consequently, if 

 smaller sizes than the current normal size of a given plant are 

 desired, any amount of reduction can be secured by continuing 

 the process illustrated in Figure i . 



The second or enlarging way: increase of size. 



For the purpose of increasing the size the best results will be 

 obtained by using pollen- and ovule-bearing parents of exactly 

 the same size, as shown in A and B of Figure 2. If the sizes are the 

 same an actual doubling of size will be secured in the offspring C. 



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