NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
ever, like a high-school scholar’s grammar 
diagram, all logically connected. The page 
itself presents a strangely crowded effect, a 
veritable maze. I considered a sample page 
somewhat in detail, and found that it had 
forty distinct diagrams and figures and over 
six hundred words of text. Page after page 
of this matter appears. From time to time 
additions are made as the plant progresses. 
When the final test comes and the plant is 
finished, heavy cross-lines are drawn over the 
page—the end has been reached. 
On one page is a large circle perhaps seven 
inches across. It represents the branch-spread 
of a tree. All over the circle are jottings 
showing where certain grafts are located on 
the tree, so that there can be no mistake. On 
the grafts, too, may be notations in the form 
of tags, but the record of the plan book shows 
absolutely where the graft is,—if the tag be 
lost, the record remains. Sometimes the nota- 
tions are so many upon a page that the writing 
is well-nigh microscopic inside certain tiny 
squares that are drawn in red or black ink. 
Here are kept, too, absolute data as to cross- 
ings in hybridization. The parents on both 
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