New Creations in Fruits and Flowers. -1 



Nearly all my new lilies are crosses of parents selected for health, hardi- 

 ness, rasj' i?ia}uioc)fic)it ?iU(\ rapid nndtiplicatioii, as well as fragrance, beauty of 

 coloring, grace and abundance of flowers ; all will thrive and increase rapidly 

 where almost any lih^ will grow. In these hybrids a broad foundation has 

 been laid for endless variations which will reward lovers of flowers for ages 

 to come. 



" I am j^reath- deHghted to know that you have so many new lihes coming on ; they 

 are to me the great attraction of Cahfornia, and I would go further to see them than any of 

 the other products of the vState." M. Crawi-ord, Ohio. 



" I have received your pamphlet descriptive of some of your remarkahle productions. 

 I thank you for your courtesy, and have read the pamphlet with more interest than I ever 

 felt in any other horticultural publication. I shall esteem it a threat kindness if you will 

 send me your following publications." W. E. ENDicoTT,'Mass. 



"Another reason why I am a champion of new fruits is that the originators must have 

 encouragement. As a rule, men who originate new fruits are ver}- poorly rewarded for long 

 years of experimentation. If no one becomes interested in their productions after they 

 have secured them, certainly originators would cease to exist. Have I not said enough to 

 encourage the reader to believe that the introduction of new fruits is a blessing to 

 mankind?" —Charles A. Green, in Farmers' Home. 



"The trouble is not so much that novelties are unworthy as it is that they are recom- 

 mended promiscuously, and that their particular and distinctive merits are not discovered. 

 I look with suspicion upon all those which are recommended indiscriminately, indefinitely, 

 generally and for everything, and equally for all regions, because their descriptions cannot 

 be truthful, and cannot be founded upon experience. I believe that the time is now at 

 hand when a man can establish a more lucrative nursery or plant business by giving his 

 novelties careful and discriminating tests, and by telling what they are not good for as 

 clearly as he tells what they are good for, as he can b^• possessing himself of the desire to 

 introduce a certain number of novelties each year and to paint them in such faultless colors 

 that every thoughtful man knows that they are false." —Prof. L. H. Bailey. 



"No seedsman worthy the name would offer as a 'novelty' a plant or seed unless it 

 had some points of value not already possessed by others. However much he might make 

 from the sale of such at the start, a Inisiness built up therefrom is short-lived; beside that, 

 the legitimate set dsman takes a great pride in his business reputation. He wants to have 

 the seeds he sells prove just what they are represented to be." — Florists Fxehange. 



"You who read these lines ma}' consider that we are making progress slowh-. But if 

 3'ou will remember that it has taken some twenty million years for the improvements of 

 new fruits to reach the standard enjoyed when you were a boy, you will realize that the 

 improvement has really been more rapid recently than in any other period of the history of 

 the world." — Chas. A. Green. 



"An occasional and slight change in the conditions of life is beneficial to all plants and 

 animals; but the offspring from a cross between organisms which have been exposed to 

 different conditions profit in an incomparably higher degree than do young or old beings 

 from a mere change of their conditions." — Dai win. 



