ORIENTAL PLUMS 23 



what is elsewhere told of methods, to give a 

 fairly vivid impression of the work involved in 

 the attempt to develop a perfect series of plums 

 for all purposes. 



We must strive to produce, in a 

 few decades, changes comparable 

 to those that had been wrought in 

 the course of centuries through 

 unconscious selection by many 

 peoples under widely diversified 

 climates and conditions. 



