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THAT a second edition of this work should have been called for within four years of the appearance of the first shows that it has met a definite need. Nor is this surprising; for the dimensions to which the study of scientific plant breeding has attained offer one of the most spectacular examples of the rapid rise of an applied science based upon a simple initial discovery.
The Genetics of Garden Plants
By M. B. Crane W. J. C. Lawrence. Second edition. Pp. xxi + 287. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1938.) 12s. 6d. net.
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The Genetics of Garden Plants. Nature 144, 94 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144094a0
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