SHORT-CUTS INTO 

 THE CENTURIES TO COME 



BETTER PLANTS SECURED BY 

 HURRYING EVOLUTION 



WITH the bees buzzing about in the thou- 

 sands of blossoms on your experiment 

 farm," said a visitor, "I should think 

 that the plants would get all mixed up; I 

 should think that the daisies would be crossed 

 with carnations, and the carnations with balloon 

 flowers, and the balloon flowers with poppies, and 



the poppies with cactus." 



* * * * * 



If we were to watch a bee at work, we should 

 quickly discover one reason why this does not 

 happen one reason, at least, why the cherries, 

 and the prunes, and the roses, and the geraniums 

 have not long ago been reduced to a scrambled 

 mess. 



Our observation of the bee would show that, in 

 going from flower to flower, it goes only to flowers 

 of a kind. 



[VOLUME I CHAPTER VI] 



