THE GARDEN-CRAFT SERIES 
LANT-BREEDING: Being Five Lectures 
upon the Amelioration of Domestic Plants. 
By L. H. BAILEY, Professor of Horticulture in the 
Cornell University. 
2893 PAGES — 20 ILLUSTRATIONS — $1.00 
A work of unique interest, it being the only 
volume upon this subject. When one considers the 
marvelous changes in our fruits, vegetables and 
flowers within a generation: through the work of 
man, in turning to his purposes the impulses of 
nature, the great interest of this book may be indi- 
eated. It tells’ how varieties of cultivated plants 
come about, and further, how one may engage in 
the fascinating work of originating them. The 
grower who gropes in the dark in his search for 
the ideal fruit or flower may here find guidance and 
aid in the principles governing the work. 
PLANT-BREEDING comprises five chapters: The Fact and 
Philosophy of Variation; The Philosophy of the Crossing of Plants; 
How Domestic Varieties Originate; Borrowed Opinions, being trans- 
lations from the writings of Verlot, Carriére and Focke; Pollination, 
or How to Cross Plants. Chapter III. contains the list of fifteen 
rules for plant-breeding which De Varigny, the eminent French 
writer, has called “the quindecalogue of the horticulturist.” 
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* Professor Bailey’s elucidation of the matter will be found clear, simple, 
direct, as far as possible untechnical, and so written as to make a pleasant 
appeal to every intelligent reader, even though not deeply versed or very 
specially interested in botanical science.”—Country Gentleman. 
The author has hero collected and brought together a good deal of in- 
formation about the origination of new forms of plants not otherwise easily 
obtainable, and thereby renders no small service to horticulturists in search 
of such knowledge."—American Agriculturist. 
