PREFACE 



The present paper was prepared at the suggestion of Mr. Alonzo Gartley 

 for presentation to the members of the Social Science Association of Honolulu. 

 After reading, the members of this Association kindly consented to the request of 

 Mr. H. P. Agee that it be published by the Experiment Station of the Hawaiian 

 Sugar Planters' Association. In this paper the writer has attempted to briefly 

 present his point of view and experience in the work for the improvement of 

 certain economic plants through bud selection. His experience has covered about 

 twenty years of active work with plant improvement, mainly with corn, tobacco, 

 asparagus, citrus fruits, and some other farm crops. Individual sugar cane plant 

 studies were begun in February, 1920, by the writer and associates of the 

 Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. The writer 

 believes that the results of this effort will be of particular scientific interest and 

 great commercial importance. 



A. D. SHAMEL. 

 March 12, 1921. 



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