THE PLAN BOOKS 
again in these plan books appears tne same 
persistent adherence to accuracy, indeed to 
scientific accuracy, if you will, a supreme 
devotion to the definite. So, numbers not 
proving satisfactory, he took fantastic names. 
Sometimes it is the name of a workman who 
is near at hand when the test is being made of 
record, but more often a peculiarity of the 
fruit or flower itself. Here are some names 
selected from among many: 
“Long Nose,” “Pan Sweet,” “Jim,” “The 
Best Yet,” “Christmas Giant,” “Hill Top 
Sweet,” “Weeping Yellow,” “Rice Seed,” 
“Snowball,” “Old Juicy,” “Beauty,” “Left- 
over Sweet,” “Miracle,” “Giant,” “Climax.” 
Now and then upon some page will appear 
at the end of a test two words; they sum up 
the results of perhaps a dozen years of testing: 
“No good.” No matter how attractive or how 
nutritious a new fruit, if it has failed to come 
up to, and go a little beyond the fruits from 
which it was bred, it must be rejected, and 
the two words of supreme condemnation must 
stand forever against it. 
As an illustration of the data on a given 
test, it may be noted that upon one sheet 
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