THE PLAN BOOKS 



again in these plan books appears tne same 

 persistent adherence to accuracy, indeed to 

 scientific accuracy, if you will, a supreme 

 devotion to the definite. So, numbers not 

 proving satisfactory, he took fantastic names. 

 Sometimes it is the name of a workman who 

 is near at hand when the test is being made of 

 record, but more often a peculiarity of the 

 fruit or flower itself. Here are some names 

 selected from among many: 



"Long Nose," "Pan Sweet," "Jim," "The 

 Best Yet," "Christmas Giant," "Hill Top 

 Sweet," "Weeping Yellow," "Rice Seed," 

 "Snowball," "Old Juicy," "Beauty," "Left- 

 over Sweet," "Miracle," "Giant," "Climax." 



Now and then upon some page will appear 

 at the end of a test two words ; they sum up 

 the results of perhaps a dozen years of testing: 

 "No good." No matter how attractive or how 

 nutritious a new fruit, if it has failed to come 

 up to, and go a little beyond the fruits from 

 which it was bred, it must be rejected, and 

 the two words of supreme condemnation must 

 stand forever against it. 



As an illustration of the data on a given 

 test, it may be noted that upon one sheet 



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