Planning A New Plant 



The First Steps in Practical Work 



SOMEONE has said that a painter is a man 

 who can see the picture in the landscape. 

 In similar fashion it may be said that a 

 successful plant experimenter is one who can see 

 new varieties of future plants when he looks at 

 old existing varieties. 



But of course the painter, whatever his con- 

 structive imagination, does not always see at first 

 glance every detail of form and color that will 

 ultimately appeal to him. Nor can the plant 

 experimenter claim, by any manner of means, to 

 know always from the outset just what his new 

 plant creations will be like. There are numberless 

 instances, indeed, in which a plant experimenter 

 who operates on a large scale may make hybrid- 

 izing experiments, merely to test the possibilities 

 of crossing certain species, without having any 

 precise and definite goal in view. 



[Volume III — Chapter I] 



