HOW MAY I DO IT TO0O;—BREEDING 
life habits and forming new ones as to result 
in vastly more harm than good. 
This he constantly guards against in his own 
work,—his aim is always to make things 
better than they ever were before. He does, 
however, heartily encourage selection, choosing 
the best plant of a given vegetable and, from 
year to year, choosing the best of its plants 
in turn, thereby steadily carrying it upward. 
He suggests here, as in the case of the flowers, 
that one choose some one particular vegetable 
which he thinks should be improved—one 
that needs to be larger, or better-looking, or 
thriftier, or finer in quality, and work on and 
on with it, as with the flowers, until the end 
desired is reached. 
Mr. Burbank urges the work of plant- 
breeding upon clerks, upon laboring men, 
business men, professional men, especially girls 
and women,—upon any man or woman who 
would like to take a hand in making the earth 
a more beautiful place in which to live. 
He points out the fact that results of sur- 
passing importance may come to the hand of 
any man who takes up this work primarily as a 
pastime or as a means of health. No man can 
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