COMMERCIAL ASPECTS OF THE WORK 



issuance of this volume so many of them are 

 but just coming into commercial sway, it is to 

 the somewhat more distant future unquestion- 

 ably that the greatest commercial triumphs are 

 to be won for the world. And this is not be- 

 cause the present -time creations are not splen- 

 didly fulfilling their mission, but because the 

 newer work has vastly greater possibilities. In 

 the pitless plums and prunes, the new grasses, 

 the thornless cactus, the new fast-growing 

 forest trees, the frost-resisting trees, the w r ork 

 in new varieties of pears, apples, quinces, 

 peaches, apricots and berries, together with 

 other experiments under way which have not 

 yet reached so advanced a stage, lie vaster 

 commercial possibilities than in anything he 

 has yet achieved, as well as a greater measure 

 of service to the race. 



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