ON THE POSSIBILITIES 



near Racine, Wisconsin, the celery crop near 

 Kalamazoo, the canteloupe crop at Rocky Ford 

 all of these bear eloquent testimony to the profit 

 of a specialty properly introduced. 



Who can say how many who are making only 

 a hand-to-mouth living out of corn or wheat, sim- 

 ply because they are in corn or wheat countries, 

 could not fit some special plant to their worn out 

 soil? 



And who, seeing that some forms of plant life 

 not only exist, but thrive, under the most adverse 

 conditions, shall say that there is any poor land, 

 anywhere? Is it not the fact that poor land usually 

 means that the plants have been poorly chosen 

 for it, or poorly adapted to it? 



These are all problems which will be treated 

 in their proper places, problems which offer rich 

 rewards to plant improvers of determination and 



patience. 



***** 



So far, in these opportunities for plant im- 

 provement, we have referred only to the better- 

 ment of plants now under cultivation. 



When we remember that every useful plant 

 which now grows to serve us was once a wild 

 plant, and when we begin to check over the list 

 of those wild plants which have not yet been 

 improved, the possibilities are almost staggering. 



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