RECORDING THE EXPERIMENTS 



who makes up the main bulk of the population, 

 and whose tastes and needs are the criterion by 

 which the plant experimenter's results will be 

 judged, it is the final product rather than the 

 precise method by which it is attained that is 

 important. But the ideal at which the plant 

 experimenter aims would probably never have 

 been realized had he not given himself the aid of 

 some such system of quick and accurate records 

 as my plan books present. 



Once the principles of hybridiza- 

 tion and selection have been clearly 

 mastered, they may be applied to 

 almost every variety of plant life. 

 There are differences in detail, but the 

 broad outline is the same for each. 



