Description
A history of the development and operation of California's Eddy Tree Breeding Station; discussion of founder James G. Eddy; choice of site, 1925; reorganization as Institute of Forest Genetics; 1935 transfer of the Institute to US Forest Service; development of pollination techniques, inter-specific hybridization of pines; other research projects. Appended statement on Robert Harrison Weidman, past superintendent of the Institute, by Mrs. Weidman.