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those that nature provided, and the entire course 

 of my experiments might be likened to an ab- 

 breviated transcript of the processes of natural 

 selection through which species everywhere have 

 been created, and are to-day still being created, 

 in the world at large. 



New Races of Shastas 



Once the divergent traits of these various 

 strains had been intermingled, the conflict set up 

 was sure to persist generation after generation. 



Each individual hereditary trait, even though 

 suppressed in a single generation by the prepo- 

 tency of some opposing trait, strives for a hear- 

 ing and tends to reappear in some subsequent 

 generation. 



So the plant developer, by keenly scrutinizing 

 each seedling, will observe that no two plants of 

 his hybrid crop are absolutely identical; and by 

 selecting and cultivating one divergent strain or 

 another, he may bring to the surface and further 

 develop traits that had long been subordinated. 



Seizing on these, I was enabled, in the course 

 of ensuing years, to develop various races of the 

 Shasta, some of which were so very different that 

 they have been given individual names. The 

 Alaska, for example, has even larger and more 

 numerous blossoms than the original Shasta, 



