" No limit can be fixed as to the improvements which may be expected from care, 

 thought and selection. The gains of the last dozen years may surely be taken as the fore- 

 runners of better things. It is clear that no very important additions to our cultivated 

 plants are to be expected now from the discovery of new species, but an unlimited field 

 opens before the raiser of new and improved forms in all our garden flowers, and in fruit 

 and vegetables." 



Henri h. de Vilmorin. 



PRESS or 



H. 8. CROCKER COMPANY, 

 SAN FRANCISCO 



