Luther Burbank: his methods and discoveries and their practical application
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Burbank, Luther, 1849-1926. Whitson, John; John, Robert; Williams, Henry Smith, 1863-1943, Editor
Luther Burbank: his methods and discoveries and their practical application
Volume I
New York: Luther Burbank Press, 1914
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Contents
[Frontispiece] Luther Burbank at sixty-four
[How the cactus got its spines -- and how it lost them -- a sidelight on the importance of environment], pp. [unnumbered]-[34]
Twenty-three potato seeds and what they taught -- a glimpse at the influence of heredity, pp. [35]-[65]
[No two living things exactly alike -- infinite ingenuity the price of variation], pp. [66]-[106]
The rivalry of plants to please us -- on the forward march of adaptation, pp. [107]-[139]
[Let us now produce a new pink daisy -- a practical lesson in harnessing heredity], pp. [140]-[175]
[Short-cuts into the centuries to come -- better plants secured by hurrying evolution], pp. [176]-[210]
How far can plant improvement go? -- the crossroads where fact and theory seem to part, pp. [211]-[244]
Some plants which are begging for immediate improvement -- a rough survey of the possibilities, pp. [245]-273
[Piecing the fragments of a motion picture film -- we stop to take a backward glance], pp. [273]-302 ff.
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