LUTHER BURBANK 



last without violence, but the lightning fell and 

 the storm raged, and strata were deposited and 

 uptorn and bent back, and Chaos moved from 

 beneath, to create and flavor the fruit on your 

 table to-day." 



Let the plant developer ponder and heed that 

 saying, and realize that at best it is given him not 

 to create or overturn, but only to have a slight 

 selective and directive influence in the great 

 Scheme of Plant Evolution. 



FOUNDATIONS OF HEREDITY 



We have viewed in detail the story of the 

 development of the different fruits, and have 

 observed many anomalous products. 



We have witnessed the creation of new species, 

 and have seen that rules applying to the hybridiz- 

 ing of certain forms appear to be quite abandoned 

 in the hybridizing of others. 



But of course we know that the underlying 

 principles are everywhere the same, and that 

 seeming divergencies in their application to dif- 

 ferent species are but modifications of the same 

 laws to meet varying conditions. The wise plant 

 developer must be able to look beneath the surface 

 and discover the underlying harmonies. Other- 

 wise he will often make mistaken interpretations, 

 and will perhaps give up an experiment when the 

 goal was just within reach. 



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