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HISTORY 



THIS book had its -beginning in a lecture that I gave 

 twenty-three years ago (December 1, 1891) before the Mas- 

 sachusetts State Board of Agriculture, in Boston, on " Cross- 

 Breeding and Hybridizing " ; and this lecture, in turn, was 

 the outgrowth of one given in 1885 and soon afterwards 

 published. Under the same title, but with a bibliography 

 added, the Boston lecture was published as a pamphlet in 

 1892, and placed on sale, by the Rural Publishing Company 

 of New York, as one of the Rural Library Series. It com- 

 prised forty-four pages, and sold for 40 cents. In the sum- 

 mer of 1895, I gave two addresses on variation and the 

 origination of domestic varieties of plants under the auspices 

 of the American Society for the Extension of University 

 Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. In the mean- 

 time, I had been teaching the subject to my classes in 

 horticulture in Cornell University. In the latter part of 

 1895, I put together these materials in book form, and hav- 

 ing no short descriptive title I used the word or compound 

 " Plant-Breeding." Of this work, the Massachusetts lec- 

 ture comprised Chapter II, and the Philadelphia lectures 

 Chapters I and III. The bibliography was not included. 

 Chapter IV comprised "Borrowed opinions" from the 

 writings of Verlot, Carriere, and Focke. Carriere's work 

 on "Production et Fixation des Varietes dans les Vege- 

 taux" had been translated, with a view to publication, as 

 early as 1886. The book, " Plant-Breeding," was translated 



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