ON THE REWARDS OF PATIENCE 



It will serve to give an outline of the progress 

 of the work if we briefly summarize the contents 

 of the successive catalogs in which the new devel- 

 opments were publicly reported. 



New Developments Announced in 1893 



The first of these, as already noted, appeared in 

 June, 1893, under title of New Creations in Fruits 

 and Flowers. The subsequent ones were regarded 

 as supplements to the original publication. By 

 running over the contents of these supplements of 

 successive years, an impression is gained of the 

 sequence in which the more important plant de- 

 velopments were brought to a stage of improve- 

 ment that justified their introduction. But of 

 course it must not be inferred that the different 

 experiments had been taken up in the precise 

 sequence in which their successful results were 

 announced. Some lines of investigation require 

 far more time than others; there are experiments 

 still awaiting announcement that were begun at 

 the very outset of my experimental work. 



Nevertheless the successive announcements 

 may be taken as at least giving a general view of 

 the progress of the work; so we may briefly sum- 

 marize the contents of the original publication and 

 of the earlier Supplements to which chief interest 

 attaches because of the entire novelty of the prod- 

 ucts they present. 



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