Excerpt from Luther Burbank, His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application, Vol. 3: Prepared From His Original Field Notes Covering More Than 100, 000 Experiments Made During Forty Years Devoted to Plant Improvement With many examples of the actual work before us, Mr. Burbank now takes us into the interesting detail of method itself, treating the subjects of pollenation, grafting, plant affinities, fixing traits, selection, and spreading before us all Of the processes which he has employed in his more than separate experiments. The purpose has been to lead the reader, by easy and interesting stages, up to a point where a delineation of the actual processes may be most readily grasped. This, the third book, completes the consideration of general method, and with the two preceding volumes gives us an intelligent survey of Mr. Burbank's work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.