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 -fines 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 



324 



