Shortly after the Carnegie Institution established the Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor in 1905, a propagating house, a potting shed, and greenhouses were built to provide facilities for research in plant and animal breeding. During this time, George Shull, a plant geneticist, did his seminal work on hybrid corn (Hybrid Vigor) in the fields outside the Main Building (now Carnegie Library). In the Carnegie Institution of Washington Yearbook for 1906, Director Davenport reported, "During the year, three greenhouses, each 6 by 9 meters, connected with a frame laboratory of 6 by 18 meters, have been completed. One of the houses is used during the winter, for the cultivation of lettuce and grasses required as food by the canaries and young poultry."
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