WHAT WE NEED 4~u 



to adapt the species to these new wants. Those per- 

 Bons who are looking for the coming of the perfect, 

 all-ronnd variety, are behind the time, and are con- 

 stantly getting farther behind, for it is more and 

 more impossible to combine all the varied and contra- 

 dictory Bpecific desires of men into one plant formi 

 There musl be a besl variety for every particular nse 

 and locality and soil. The cosmopolitan variety must 

 become more and more restricted in range and useful- 

 ness as time goes on, and as more refined and specific 

 needs arise. People are always Baying thai we already 

 have too many varieties and the effort is always mak- 

 ing to reduce the number. Even the experimenters 

 in the stations nsually conceive it to be a pari of 

 their duty to endeavor to reduce the number of varie- 

 ties, but what they are really doing — or mighl be 

 doing — is determining the merits of varieties for 

 specific uses. If a given variety <l<»es not satisfy 

 the ideal of the experimenter, that tact is no proof 



that it may Hot Batisfj the ideal of some one else, 



Or that it may not be a positive acquisition in >< >nn- 



other place or for Bome other purpose. We shall 

 always nerd to tesl varieties, to be sure, and the 

 testing must he more exacl ami personal the more 



Critical we 1 ome in out- demands. It is nut of the 



many new varieties thai we shall find the particular 



ones which we ourselves desire. 



In tic- Becond place, we need a greater range of 

 variation, — more divergent and widely unlike varieties. 

 These can be had \>\ Belecting oul of the annually 

 recurring batches of new varieties those winch are 

 > unlike the existing types, providing, of course, 

 they arc worthy to be perpetuated. Bui thej can be 



