SHORT-CUTS INTO 
THE CENTURIES TO COME 
BETTER PLANTS SECURED By 
HurRRYING EVOLUTION 
‘ M J 1TH the bees buzzing about in the thou- 
sands of blossoms on your experiment 
farm,” said a visitor, “I should think 
that the plants would get all mixed up; I 
should think that the daisies would be crossed 
with carnations, and the carnations with balloon 
flowers, and the balloon flowers with poppies, and 
the poppies with cactus.” 
If we were to watch a bee at work, we should 
quickly discover one reason why this does not 
happen—one reason, at least, why the cherries, 
and the prunes, and the roses, and the geraniums 
have not long ago been reduced to a scrambled 
mess. 
Our observation of the bee would show that, in 
going from flower to flower, it goes only to flowers 
of a kind. 
[VoLuME I—Cnwapter VI] 
