Short-cuts Into 

 THE Centuries to Come 



Better Plants Secured By 

 Hurrying Evolution 



WITH the bees buzzing about in the thou- 

 sands of blossoms on your experiment 

 farm," said a visitor, "I should think 

 that the plants would get all mixed up; I 

 should think that the daisies would be crossed 

 with carnations, and the carnations with balloon 

 flowers, and the balloon flowers with poppies, and 

 the poppies with cactus." 



***** 



If we were to watch a bee at work, we should 

 quickly discover one reason why this does not 

 happen — one reason, at least, why the cherries, 

 and the prunes, and the roses, and the geraniums 

 have not long ago been reduced to a scrambled 

 mess. 



Our observation of the bee would show that, in 

 going from flower to flower, it goes only to flowers 

 of a kind. 



[Volume I — Chapter VI] 



