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Of the details of working method — of the little 

 plans that save time — of the bold innovations 

 which many may have dreamed, but none have 

 ever dared to do; of these, in the volumes to 

 come, we shall find plenty. 



And we shall find ourselves searching the 

 times when things were not as thej'' are, in order 

 to obtain glimpses of things as they are to be — 

 and all, not from the standpoint of theory, but 

 merely to help us in the very practical, the very 

 useful work of developing by natural methods 

 new forms of plant life — better forms than she 

 would produce for us unaided — plants which be- 

 cause of their greater productivity will help us 

 lower our constantly increasing cost of living — 

 plants which will yield us entirely new sub- 

 stances to be used in manufactures — plants 

 which will grow on what now are waste places 

 — plants which, by their better fruit, or their 

 increased beauty, or their doubled yield, or their 

 improved quality, will add to our individual 

 pleasures and profits and to the pleasure and 

 profits of the whole world. 



In order to work forward a little, 

 wj mmt look backward through 

 the ages. 



