NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



for blending with a plant long accustomed 

 to the warmer portions of the temperate zone. 

 Then, by uniting this arctic plant with the 

 temperate zone plant, I reach a plant which is 

 of the right frost resistance to be grown in the 

 colder parts of the temperate zones, and thus 

 are made possible these frost-resisting fruit trees 

 which will bear stiff freezing without harm. 

 Another plant may be troubled with cold, wet 

 feet — it needs hardening so that it will grow 

 satisfactorily in a soil that may be wet. So it 

 must be bred against this. One of the arctic 

 plants, for example, which has never grown in 

 the temperate zone may be a very desirable 

 plant to introduce, but it has never been used 

 to a warm, early spring and it begins its 

 budding and blossoming so early that it fails to 

 accomplish what it should in fruit or flower 

 productions. So it is necessary to breed it in 

 turn to temperate climate conditions. 



" Cross a hardy plant and a tender plant 

 and often the tendency is toward the hardy; 

 the waves, so to speak, sweep ever up toward 

 the hardy, to the highest limits of the hardy, 

 and some few sweep up over; — it is these few 

 we must catch and make use of, for, on an 



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