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New Developments Announced in 1893 



The first of these, as already noted, appeared 

 in June, 1893, under title of "New Creations in 

 Fruits and Flowers." The subsequent ones 

 were regarded as supplements to the original 

 publication. By running over the contents of 

 these supplements of successive years, an im- 

 pression is gained of the sequence in which 

 the more important plant developments were 

 brought to a stage of improvement that justified 

 their introduction. But of course it must not be 

 inferred that the different experiments had been 

 taken up in the precise sequence in which their 

 successful results were announced. Some lines 

 of investigation require far more time than 

 others; there are a great number of experiments 

 still awaiting announcement that were begun at 

 the very outset of my experimental work. 



Nevertheless the successive announcements 

 may be taken as at least giving a general view 

 of the progress of the work; so we may briefly 

 summarize the contents of the original publica- 

 tion and of the earlier supplements to which 

 chief interest attaches because of the entire 

 novelty of the products they present. 



In a later chapter we shall take up the theo? 

 retical bearings of the new work. Here we are 



