NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
test. Events of supreme importance in the 
many tests under way are happening,—things 
move with relentless rapidity. Certain data 
must be at once recorded. He has a paste- 
board box at hand—he tears it to pieces, 
and on its brown surface in a bold, strong 
hand he makes his notation; or it may be on 
the back of an old envelope, or it may 
be in the field note-book he always carries in 
the midst of such work,— it matters not what 
the medium, the record is the thing, and it 
is made with all haste. It may be the turn 
certain sets of leaves are taking, departing in 
the hybrid from the ways of their ancestors ; 
it may be the size or color or texture or 
date of ripening, or ultimate rejection of a 
fruit; it may be a record of the shape of its 
seed-cavity or an outline of its hemisphere ; 
or it may be a note as to the tree trunk’s 
development, or its departure from the normal, 
or some point of importance in the history 
of a graft, or the acidity, or sweetness, or 
uniqueness of the fruit itself. It may be the 
date of the opening of a flower, the length 
of its petals, the shape they assume, the height 
of the stalk upon a given date, the details of 
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