THE SUM OF HIS WORK 



of the bearing of the work done at Santa Rosa on 

 questions of practical horticulture, of public opin- 

 ion, and of biological theory. 



It may be added that the word "heredity" had 

 not at this time been introduced. 



Why The Orchardists Were Interested 



The supplementary announcement, issued in 

 1894, gave the names of several important firms of 

 dealers in horticultural supplies, who had pur- 

 chased the principal new varieties announced in 

 the brochure of the preceding year. The list 

 included the names of prominent nurserymen 

 from California to New England. 



The interest thus evidenced by the practical 

 orchardists and nurserymen, who measured the 

 value of the new products in terms of dollars and 

 cents may readily enough be accounted for. Up- 

 to-date dealers are always on the lookout for 

 novelties; and the fruits and flowers produced at 

 Santa Rosa were novelties in the most compre- 

 hensive and exacting sense of the word. 



They were not merely new varieties that dif- 

 fered by a shade from old varieties. They were 

 new forms produced by the combination of dif- 

 ferent species, often of species brought together 

 from different hemispheres; and they were so rad- 

 ically different from the forms previously in ex- 

 istence that many of them would, without hesita- 



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