liO LUTIIKR BURBAXK 



itiet of iuv ungituU worthleii anccBtor were 

 quite eliminated. 



It muft be dear that this result could not 

 haire been brought about if the various ptiin of 

 qtialttiei — Urgt nm vertot aniall tiae, awaetnaas 

 rertus soumeat, proltfie Teraus ihr bearinf?. and 

 the like — had not been aeparated in tlie ^mi 

 plaam of the bybrida in auch a way that the unit 

 characters could be sorted out and any good 

 quality transmitted unimpaired by tta oootact 

 with the opposing bad quality. 



In other worda, had tfaei« been a Mending of 

 traits in the aenae in which the older experi- 

 menters imagined the traits of hybrids to be 

 blended, we should have had at best a croas in 

 which the qualities of the worthleas chary were 

 mingled with thos^ of the valuable one; a race 

 which, if better than its worthless anceator, was 

 worse than its valued one. 



And it might never have been poasihle to 

 breed out altogether the undesirable qualities 

 that the original cross had introduced. 



SSPAIATIXG THE TbATTS 



But we have seen in the case of the cherries, 

 as we had previously seen in the case of some 

 Cither plants, and as we shall have occasion to see 

 in numberless others in future, that it is possible 



