LUTHER BURBANK 



I have sent seed of this to experimenters better 

 located; and this unusually hardy dwarf cotton 

 may yet prove of value for crossbreeding purposes. 



— The function of cotton fiber 

 is, of course, to protect the 

 seed and to facilitate its dis- 

 tribution. But Nature would 

 scarcely have carried the 

 elaboration of the protective 

 fiber to such a length, had she 

 not been aided by man, who 

 has selected, generation after 

 generation, among the cotton 

 plants, the ones that pro- 

 duced the best quality of fiber 

 — as gaged by his own needs. 



