NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



test. Events of supreme importance in the 

 many tests under way are happening, — things 

 move with relentless rapidity. Certain data 

 must be at once recorded. He has a paste- 

 board box at hand — he tears it to pieces, 

 and on its brown surface in a bold, strong 

 hand he makes his notation ; or it may be on 

 the back of an old envelope, or it may 

 be in the field note -book he always carries in 

 the midst of such work, — it matters not what 

 the medium, the record is the thing, and it 

 is made with all haste. It may be the turn 

 certain sets of leaves are taking, departing in 

 the hybrid from the ways of their ancestors ; 

 it may be the size or color or texture or 

 date of ripening, or ultimate rejection of a 

 fruit; it may be a record of the shape of its 

 seed -cavity or an outline of its hemisphere; 

 or it may be a note as to the tree trunk's 

 development, or its departure from the normal, 

 or some point of importance in the history 

 of a graft, or the acidity, or sweetness, or 

 uniqueness of the fruit itself It may be the 

 date of the opening of a flower, the length 

 of its petals, the shape they assume, the height 

 of the stalk upon a given date, the details of 



