PLANT BREEDING 51 



Science sees better grains, nuts, fruits, and 

 vegetables all in new forms, sizes, colors, and 

 flavors, with more nutrients and less waste, and 

 with every injurious and poisonous quality elim- 

 inated, and with power to resist sun, wind, rain, 

 frost, and destructive fungus and insect pests; 

 fruits without stones, seeds, or spines; better 

 fiber, coffee, tea, spice, rubber, oil, paper and tim- 

 ber trees, and sugar, starch, color, and perfume 

 plants. Every one of these, and ten thousand 

 more, are within the reach of the most ordinary 

 skill in plant breeding. 



On scientific plant development now rests one 

 of the next great world movements; the guid- 

 ance of the creative forces are in our hands. 



Man is slowly learning that he, too, may guide 

 the same forces which have been through all the 

 ages performing this beneficent work which he 

 sees everywhere above, beneath, and around him 

 in the vast teeming animal and plant life of the 

 world. 



These lines were penned among the heights 

 of the Sierras, while resting on the original 

 foundation material from which this planet was 

 made. Thousands of ages have passed, and it 

 still remains unchanged. In it no fossils or any 

 trace of past organic life are ever found, nor 

 could any exist, for the world-creative heat was 



