THE PLAN BOOKS 



sides and their ancestry and the essential life 

 history of the progeny are given; nothing is 

 left to chance. Many a scientific man has 

 been utterly at a loss to know how this man 

 knew what he was doing: this is the first 

 public mention ever made of the manner by 

 which he makes the records which scientific 

 men have believed lacking. 



Now and then there will be a large open 

 page on which will be a number of diagrams, 

 or circles, all connected with each other and 

 containing but a few words to each, showing 

 how a certain plant has been bred up and 

 what important facts developed in the course 

 of its history. These diagrams are in red ink 

 and the writing in pencil or black ink. When 

 the end of a test is nearing and a certain plant 

 has been selected, — it may be from among a 

 hundred thousand, as the one best of all, — its 

 record is accompanied by one or more large 

 double crosses marked in deep black ink, which 

 shows that this one plant is superior to all 

 others. 



When a fruit, for example, has reached the 

 point that it appears to be worthy of record, — 

 it may be a peach, chosen from ten thousand 



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