Works by Professor B a 



The Survival of the Unlike 



A Collection of Evolution Essays Suggested by the Study of Domestic Plants 



By L. H. BAILEY 



Professor of Horticulture in the Cornell University 

 FOURTH EDITION — 515 PAGES — 22 ILLUSTRATIONS — $2.00 



TO those interested in the iiuderlying philosophy of plant life, this 

 volume, written in a most entertaining style, and fully illustrated, 

 will prove welcome. It treats of the modification of plants under 

 cultivation upon the evolution theories, and its attitude is char- 

 acterized by the author's well-known originality and independence 

 of thought. Incidentally, there is stated much that will be valuable 

 and suggestive to the working horticulturist. It may well be called 

 indeed, a philosophy of horticulture. 



The Survival of the Unlike comprises thirty essays touehiug upou The General 

 Fact and Philosophy of Evolution (The Plant Individual, Experimental Evolution, 

 Coxey's Army and the Russian Thistle, Recent Progress, etc.) ; Expounding the Fact and 

 Causes of Variation (The Supposed Correlations of Quality in Fruits, Natural History 

 of Synonyms, Reflective Impressions, Relation of Seed-Bearing to Cultivation, Varia- 

 tion after Birth, Relation between American and Eastern Asian Fruits, Horticultural 

 Geography, Problems of Climate and Plants, 

 American Fruits, Acclimatization, Sex in 

 Fruits, Novelties, Promisius Varieties, etc.); 

 and Tracing the Evolution of Particular Types 

 of Plants (The Cultivated Strawberry, Battle 

 of the Plums, Grapes, Progress of the Carna- 

 tion, Petunia, The Garden Tomato, etc.). 



"Whatever Professor Bailey writes is in- 

 teresting reading. He has the rare gift of an 

 entertaining style, and what he writes people 

 want to read. All his previous books have 

 been widely read, and this will prove no 

 exception to the well-established rule. The 

 secret of his popularity, if there be any secret 

 about it, is that when he writes he has some- 

 thing new to say; something based upon ex- 

 periences and observations. These are by no 

 means all his own, for he has the ability to 

 see with the eyes of other people, as well as 

 with his own. He is thus able to bring into 

 his pages a rich mass of new matter, which 

 gives them additional interest and value. 

 —Prof. E. C. Bessey, in Science. 



