THE POTATO ITSELF — WHO 



WILL IMPROVE IT 



FURTHER? 



No Plant is Ever a Finished Product — 

 Potato Suggestions 



THE story of the Burbank potato has been 

 told many times. But it has seldom been 

 told correctly. Like stories in general, it 

 gains or loses something almost every time it is 

 repeated, and it sometimes comes back in a guise 

 that is scarcely recognizable. 



The real story of the production of the Bur- 

 bank potato is very simple. Something of the 

 economic value of the discovery has been sug- 

 gested in an earlier chapter, and will be touched 

 on again before we are through. 



A Simple Development 



Considered as a problem in plant develop- 

 ment, the origin of the Burbank potato was a 

 relatively simple matter. There is no story of 

 complex hybridizations and elaborate series of 



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