PLANNING A NEW PLANT 



The seed thus secured will be planted next 

 season, and in due course we shall have a seedling 

 which, when grafted on another tree to speed its 

 maturing, will come to blossoming time — after 

 another period of waiting — and finally show us 

 the first fruits of our experiment. 



From this fruit we shall raise a new generation 

 of seedlings which will reveal to us beyond 

 peradventure a varied assortment of ancestral 

 traits that the parental forms of our first hybridi- 

 zation did not show. And from among these 

 diversified forms, we shall be able, by a long series 

 of selections and new hybridizations, to make our 

 way toward the attainment of our original idea. 



The precise steps and the varying details 

 through which this may be attained, will be dis- 

 cussed in other chapters. Here we are concerned 

 only with the general outline, and, this having 

 been presented, we may leave our cherry in this 

 interesting stage of partial construction. 



To be sure we have not seemingly advanced 

 very far toward our ideal in these two generations; 

 but in this our case is only comparable, after all, 

 to that of the architect, who, when he has planned 

 a building that shall ultimately tower toward the 

 skies, must be content to see the workmen first 

 begin digging in the opposite direction, to lay 

 foundations far beneath the earth's surface. 



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