NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 
small scale, accuracy of record must be had; 
how much greater the need when the scope of 
the work transcends that of all the plant- 
breeders who have preceded him. A hint of 
the diversity that develops in a given test and 
a suggestion of the forces that must be kept in 
control and whose movements must be noted 
are seen in the fact that as much as a pint of 
pollen has been used in cross-fertilizing the 
flowers in a single lily test. The pollen from 
one flower would be not more than could be 
held upon the tip of a pen-knife blade, yet 
every one of the hundreds of thousands of 
plants that come from this gigantic crossing 
must come under the eye of the one who 
created them. 
It should also be borne in mind that 
thousands of photographs have been made in 
the midst of the tests, and, while not so 
complete as the photographic records under 
the new order of things, they are yet im- 
portant data in establishing the sequence of 
events. With the provision of ampler funds 
for the carrying on of the work, details will 
be recorded much more completely and the 
records will prove invaluable, both scien- 
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