ON THE POSSIBILITIES 
near Racine, Wisconsin, the celery crop near 
Kalamazoo, the canteloupe crop at Rocky Ford— 
all of these bear eloquent testimony to the profit 
of a specialty properly introduced. 
Who can say how many who are making only 
a hand-to-mouth living out of corn or wheat, sim- 
ply because they are in corn or wheat countries, 
could not fit some special plant to their worn out 
soil? 
And who, seeing that some forms of plant life 
not only exist, but thrive, under the most adverse 
conditions, shall say that there is any poor land, 
anywhere? Is it not the fact that poor land usually 
means that the plants have been poorly chosen 
for it, or poorly adapted to it? 
These are all problems which will be treated 
in their proper places, problems which offer rich 
rewards to plant improvers of determination and 
patience. 
So far, in these opportunities for plant im- 
provement, we have referred only to the better- 
ment of plants now under cultivation. 
When we remember that every useful plant 
which now grows to serve us was once a wild 
plant, and when we begin to check over the list 
of those wild plants which have not yet been 
improved, the possibilities are almost staggering. 
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