ON THE REWARDS OF PATIENCE 



In a later chapter we shall take up the theo- 

 retical bearings of the new work. Here we are 

 concerned for the most part with a bald recital 

 of the names of the more important new varieties 

 of plant life, presented somewhat in the order of 

 their introduction. Even as to these, nothing like 

 a complete list will be given, for the minor im- 

 provements of plant life, large numbers of which 

 have been referred to in the course of this work, 

 do not call for special reference here. 



Even the recital of the names that cannot well 

 be overlooked may carry us to rather tiresome 

 lengths. 



The new varieties of hybrid plants announced 

 in the publication of 1893 are listed in 18 suc- 

 cessive groups as follows : 



(1) Hybrid Walnuts, including the forms 

 afterward named the Paradox and the Royal. The 

 pedigrees of the two hybrids are given, one being 

 a cross between the California and the Persian 

 walnut and the other between the black walnut 

 of the East and the California black walnut; but 

 the distinctive names were given later. 



(2) A new Japanese Mammoth Chestnut. The 

 origin of this chestnut is given, and it is stated that 

 the one offered is "the best one of more than ten 

 thousand seedlings, a tree which every season 

 bears all it can hold of fat, glossy nuts of the very 



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