Stories by Frits W. Went

Man traditionally seeks to extend the range of a cultivated plant by trial and error. This range is now forecast in the "phytotron," a laboratory which reproduces the various environments of plants

Although it is acute in some large cities, it is also found far from human habitations. An interesting example is the blue haze that sometimes hangs over forests and fields during the summer

What selects the plants in an extreme environment? Is it a sort of war? The study of plants in the desert and in the laboratory indicates otherwise, which points a moral for the human species