ON HURRYING EVOLUTION 
meat of the five hundred cherries which we have 
crossed, we can safely assume, will taste the same, 
and be the same, as though we had let the bees 
attend to pollenation; the cherries that result will 
be no different in flavor or appearance than the 
other cherries on the tree. 
But inside the stony seed of each of those 
cherries we shall find an indelible living record 
of what we have done. 
So, disregarding the fruit, we save our five 
hundred cherry seeds and plant them in a shallow 
box until they have sprouted and then transplant 
them till they attain a six or eight inch growth. 
So far, let us see how we have shortened 
nature’s processes. 
In the first place, we have brought together a 
large, insipid cherry and a homely, small, sweet 
one, brought them from points, perhaps, two 
thousand miles apart. 
In the natural course, those two cherries would 
have spread; they would, eventually, have come 
together, no doubt; but we have brought them 
together without delay. Perhaps, in this, we have 
saved a thousand years. 
In bringing our two kinds of cherries together 
we have brought not only one of each type, but 
dozens, or hundreds, each selected for its size, 
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