Representative Chapter Titles 



THE following representative list^ selected from the 

 110 chapter titles that appear in the complete work^ 

 shows how the author treats just the subjects that are full 

 of interest^ yet those that meet the outstanding practical 

 problems of plant improvement. 



Fundamental Principles of Plant Breeding 



How Plants Adapt Themselves to Conditions 



Twenty-Three Potato Seeds and What They Taught 



Let Us Now Produce Some New Colors in Flowers 



Short Cuts into the Centuries to Come 



The White Blackberry 



The Stoneless Plum 



The Winter Rhubarb 



Planning a New Plant 



Practical Pollination 



Grafting and Budding 



Fixing Good Traits 



Recording Experiments 



Hastening Methods of Fruit Improvement 



The Thornless Blackberry and Others 



Designing a Strawberry to Bear the Year Around 



Inedible Fruits Which May Be Transformed 



Some Common Garden Plants and Their Improvement 



Corn — The King of America's Crops 



The Family of Grasses 



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