ON THE REWARDS OF PATIENCE 



combinations, the power to improve our useful and 

 ornamental plants is limitless." 



Ten Years of Progress 



In describing my work, Professor de Vries has 

 said that my catalog of 1893, the contents of which 

 have just been summarized, gained for its author 

 "a world wide reputation and brought him into 

 connection with almost all of the larger horticul- 

 tural firms on the earth." 



It would be superfluous to recapitulate in de- 

 tail the plant developments that have occupied 

 attention at Santa Rosa and Sebastopol in the 

 more recent years. 



In the course of the decade following the an- 

 nouncements in the first edition of New Creations, 

 the new experimental work was subjected to scru- 

 tiny by large numbers of visitors, including dis- 

 tinguished pomologists and horticulturists and 

 botanists from all over the world. The new fruits 

 and flowers had been subjected to tests sufiicient 

 to establish their merit. All skepticism as to the 

 validity of the announcements that came officially 

 from Santa Rosa had long since vanished. 



On the other hand, there were many discrimi- 

 nating and appreciative notices of the new work 

 published in magazines and books. 



If I were to summarize in a sentence or two the 

 main lines of progress of the most recent decade, 



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