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WE are most of us now-a-days so much accustomed to see our gardens or our houses bedecked with flowers, and our tables supplied with vegetables and fruit, that we take these things for granted, and do not trouble to inquire whence they come or how they are produced. But if we look back even a few years, we shall see how much larger a share plants have now in our lives than they had then. We shall see, moreover, that while there has been enormous numerical increase, there has also been in many cases continued progression in form and other attributes. We are not concerned here with the introductions from foreign countries, important though they are; our business for the moment lies with the changes resulting from the natural processes of variation as controlled by the art of the gardener.
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MASTERS, M. Plant Breeding. Nature 54, 138–139 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054138a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/054138a0