ON THE REWARDS OF PATIENCE 



and all had been submitted to careful compara- 

 tive tests until those that remained were of excep- 

 tional quality, and thousands of new productions 

 were under way that were undeveloped. 



The nursery catalog issued in 1887 — the year 

 before I sold my nursery preparatory to devoting 

 my entire time to the experiment gardens then in 

 an advanced stage of preparation — comprises 24 

 pages, and preserves the list of the exceptional 

 varieties of horticultural plants that had been se- 

 lected and developed and supplied the material 

 for continuance and extension of the experiments 

 on a larger scale on the test ground at Sebastopol. 



Here were orchard fruits in great variety; small 

 fruits of the choicest types; nuts of several species, 

 including chestnut, walnut, and pecan; garden 

 vegetables, including asparagus and rhubarb; a 

 long list of deciduous ornamental trees and shrubs, 

 and an even longer list of evergreens; vines and 

 trailing shrubs in interesting variety; and elab- 

 orate series of roses, hedge-plants, bulbous plants, 

 and bedding plants in general. All these had been 

 collected and selected and prepared for this very 

 purpose. 



With such materials at hand, it was obviously 

 possible to continue the work of developing new 

 varieties on an expansive scale so soon as the 

 grounds were ready. Moreover, as we have 



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