LUTHER BURBANK 



fairly good fruit; and from the pile of my first 

 choice seedlings he secured a fruit of such quality 

 that he named it the Klondike, declaring that it 

 gave him more good plums than he had ever had 

 before from a similar tree. 



I cite the incident as showing the possibility 

 of gauging fruiting qualities of a seedling at a time 

 when the plant itself is a mere sapling a few inches 

 in height. The capacity to make such selection 

 has sometimes been spoken of as intuition; but 

 it is really a matter of observation and practice. 

 One learns through long experience to judge what 

 characteristics of the seedlings are suggestive of 

 possibilities of fruit-bearing. 



And after all this is no more than judging the 

 man of the future by observation of the child of 

 to-day. 



The Correlation of Parts 



If we were to state the matter a little more 

 technically we might say that such selective judg- 

 ment as I have just illustrated is based on a 

 knowledge of the correlation between the different 

 parts or members of a plant's organization. 



It was first prominently brought out, I believe, 

 by the French naturalist Cuvier something over 

 a hundred years ago that there is always a 

 correlation between the different structures of a 

 given animal, to accord with its habits of life. 



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