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their tendency toward fruitfulness, their flavor, size, resistance to 

 insect pests, susceptibility to frost). 



If in a region where members of the huckleberry, cranberry, or 

 blueberry family are found bring in specimens of these plants. Do 

 you consider them wild or domesticated? Where did they originate? 

 Is there any possibility of improvement in the future? If so, along 

 what lines? 



EXERCISE III. Project study. 



Procedure. The student should report in class concerning the type 

 of project which he plans to take up during the school year. He should 

 also discuss at this time the connection between plant improvement 

 and the crop that he is growing. If it is an annual, he should take up the 

 matter of seed selection and should get all the information he can from 

 books or from publications of experiment stations concerning the 

 work that has been done with his individual crop. If he has old 

 trees, he should know the variety and should ascertain, if possible, the 

 probable origin of this variety and its desirability as a commercial 

 product. 



