HOW MAY I DO IT TOO ;— BREEDING 



life habits and forming new ones as to result 

 in vastly more harm than good. 



This he constantly guards against in his own 

 work, — his aim is always to make things 

 better than they ever were before. He does, 

 however, heartily encourage selection, choosing 

 the best plant of a given vegetable and, from 

 year to year, choosing the best of its plants 

 in turn, thereby steadily carrying it upward. 

 He suggests here, as in the case of the flowers, 

 that one choose some one particular vegetable 

 which he thinks should be improved — one 

 that needs to be larger, or better-looking, or 

 thriftier, or finer in quality, and work on and 

 on with it, as with the flowers, until the end 

 desired is reached. 



IVIr. Burbank urges the work of plant- 

 breeding upon clerkSs upon laboring men, 

 business men, professional men, especially girls 

 and women, — upon any man or woman who 

 would like to take a hand in making the earth 

 a more beautiful place in which to live. 



He points out the fact that results of sur- 

 passing importance may come to the hand of 

 any man who takes up this work primarily as a 

 pastime or as a means of health. No man can 



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