FINAL SELECTION 



enough through practice to attempt more complex 

 experiments. 



Let him, for example, increase the perfume of 

 some familiar garden plant, or develop a race 

 having large blossoms, or one having peculiar 

 brilliancy of color. 



Any flower bed will show him, among different 

 specimens of the same species, enough of variation 

 to furnish material for his first selection. And 

 he is almost sure to find encouragement through 

 discovery, among the plants grown from this seed, 

 of some that will show the particular quality he 

 has in mind in a more pronounced degree than 

 did the parent plant. 



So here he will have material for further 

 selection, and step by step he can progress in 

 successive seasons, often more rapidly than he 

 had dared to hope, toward the production of the 

 new variety at which he aims. 



Of course the time will presently come when 

 the amateur who thus begins with what may be 

 called the alphabet of plant experimentation, will 

 wish to advance to more complicated projects. He 

 will wish to urge his plants along a little more 

 rapidly on the path of variation by means of 

 hybridization. 



But even here, as will be obvious on a moment's 

 reflection, the experimenter is still dealing with 



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