NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
The new plant may develop certain charac- 
teristics like those of one parent, certain others 
like those of the other parent. It may inherit 
length of stem from one, breadth of leaf from 
the other, or it may have stem and leaf wholly 
unlike either. And this latter is frequently 
the end sought,—to produce a different type 
from that of either and from that produce by 
long selection a type superior to either parent. 
Very much of breeding is breaking up. 
I recall with interest a conversation with a 
gentleman in the city of London concerning 
the terrible depravity among the young men 
of that city. There were at that time fully 
eight hundred thousand young men in the 
city between the ages of eighteen and twenty- 
five. He was perhaps better acquainted with 
the youth of the greatest city in the world 
than any other man in it. He said, as the re- 
sult of his years of experience, that, but for 
the inflow of country blood into the veins of 
London, London life would become practi- 
cally extinct in three generations,—so vast 
the vice. 
Just as this, and all other great cities, are 
strengthened physically, mentally and, indeed, 
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