NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
This method has been followed by some in the 
belief that they were thereby preventing in- 
sects from coming in and destroying the 
pollenating, but he holds that, save in some 
particular cases, the act is not only absurd 
but absolutely harmful and more than likely 
so to injure the flower by keeping light and 
air away from it as to frustrate the very end 
aimed at. Ifthe pollenating has been thorough, 
Nature may safely be left to do the rest. 
Great care also should be exercised in sav- 
ing the seeds of the plants under test. He 
recommends air-tight glass jars for the pur- 
pose. The jars should be kept in some secure 
place—it is beyond the power of any mind to 
say how precious these seeds may prove to be. 
From the plants that grow from the new 
seeds one only should be chosen, the very best 
of all, the one which is the thriftiest, the best 
bearing, the nearest to the ideal. The seeds 
from this one plant should be in turn planted, 
and then from a very few of the very best 
plants enough plants saved out to insure a 
somewhat larger crop for the next generation. 
Then from this larger generation only the 
very best one should be saved. Mr. Burbank 
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