. Maize; its history, cultivation, handling, and uses, with special reference to South Africa; a text-book for farmers, students of agriculture, and teachers of nature study. Corn; Corn. BOTANICAL CHARACTERS 87 and the writer has even found hermaphrodite florets ( with chap. stamens and pistils in the same floret), but in those cases one or other organ was abortive. Moncecism in maize facilitates cross-pollination and hybri- dization, though the only other species with which maize can hybridize, as lar as we are aware, is the Mexican Teosinte,. Fiu. 31.—Young ear with fully developed silk.
. Maize; its history, cultivation, handling, and uses, with special reference to South Africa; a text-book for farmers, students of agriculture, and teachers of nature study. Corn; Corn. BOTANICAL CHARACTERS 87 and the writer has even found hermaphrodite florets ( with chap. stamens and pistils in the same floret), but in those cases one or other organ was abortive. Moncecism in maize facilitates cross-pollination and hybri- dization, though the only other species with which maize can hybridize, as lar as we are aware, is the Mexican Teosinte,. Fiu. 31.—Young ear with fully developed silk. Euchlcena mexicana (Fig. 10), of which hybrids have been ob- tained by Harshberger. 71. Barrett Plants.—One of the causes of low yield of grain is the occurrence of barren plants, plants which though bearing tassels produce no ears, or ears without grain. Cases are reported from America of 60 per cent of barren. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Burtt-Davy, Joseph, 1870-. London, New York, [etc. ] Longmans, Green and co.
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