Dean of Agriculture at Cornell University, 

 and a world -known authority on horticultural 

 and agricultural subjects, writes in Collier's Weekly^ October 29, 1910, under the head, 

 "Making of New Plants — the Creation of Improved Varieties," the following terse and 

 pertinent remarks, which we take the honor of printing, as they conform to our ideas 

 of what quality seeds should be, and are along the lines which we are endeavoring to 

 proceed, and the policy which we are trying to follow. It will pay our friends and custom- 

 ers to read the remarks of Prof. Bailey, founded on theory and actual practice. 



SUGGESTIONS FOR THE GROWER 



**I can not make my reader a plant breeder; but I want to open his 

 mind to a great line of progress that is little realized. 



"I desire to say to him that it will pay him increasingly, as plant- 

 breeding methods improve, to take good care to purchase only well-bred seed, 

 not only of choice flowers and high-class vegetables, but of field crops as 

 well. It is not enough that seeds be true to name, clean of weeds, and 

 strong enough to grow; they should also have good ancestry or pedigree. 



" I wish to suggest, further, that he will find it pleasant and profitable 

 work himself to improve the strain in some one or more of the plants that 

 he cultivates. This can often be easily accomplished by using seed from 

 marked plants of superior excellence, sowing these by themselves to avoid 

 crossing with other plants, the following year again selecting out the best 

 for seed. 



**The grower of a small garden should be able to derive special per- 

 sonal satisfaction from this careful plant-selection effort, because the small 

 differences are in themselves so interesting, and the results are generally 

 . so readily secured. The effort is worth all it costs in training a person to 

 see what he looks at, if in nothing more. The most satisfactory garden is 

 not the one that is most perfect in the eyes of a gardener, but the one that 

 has the most meaning." 



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 telephone, and will have an expert on hand to answer practical questions and to 

 make suggestions. Phone your order in and charge it to us, if you live within one 

 hundred miles of New York City. Goods will go forward promptly. 



Prof. L. H. Bailey 



