NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



small scale, accuracy of record must be had ; 

 how much greater the need when the scope of 

 the work transcends that of all the plant- 

 breeders who have preceded him. A hint of 

 the diversity that develops in a given test and 

 a suggestion of the forces that must be kept in 

 control and whose movements must be noted 

 are seen in the fact that as much as a pint of 

 pollen has been used in cross-fertilizing the 

 flowers in a single lily test. The pollen from 

 one flower would be not more than could be 

 held upon the tip of a pen-knife blade, yet 

 every one of the hundreds of thousands of 

 plants that come from this gigantic crossing 

 must come under the eye of the one who 

 created them. 



It should also be borne in mind that 

 thousands of photographs have been made in 

 the midst of the tests, and, while not so 

 complete as the photographic records under 

 the new order of things, they are yet im- 

 portant data in establishing the sequence of 

 events. With the provision of ampler funds 

 for the carrying on of the work, details will 

 be recorded much more completely and the 

 records will prove invaluable, both scien- 



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