A SUMMARY OF THE WORK 



WHAT IT MEANS TO SCIENCE AND 

 AGRICULTURE 



WHAVE seen that the first edition of 

 New Creations in Fruits and Flowers" 

 was published in June, 1893. Perhaps 

 we can best give an idea of the impression created 

 by the work by quoting a few paragraphs from 

 the introduction to the supplementary brochure 

 that was published the following year. Although 

 this second work was issued independently, it 

 consisted in the main of a fuller account of 

 some of the plant developments referred to in 

 the first work, together with a large number 

 of photographic illustrations. The two bro- 

 chures, issued respectively in 1893 and 1894, 

 may be considered as constituting the first official 

 publication of the main outlines of the work 

 in plant development which had begun in Massa- 

 chusetts fully twenty years earlier, and which 

 had occupied our whole attention unreservedly 

 since 1885. 



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