. Principles of plant culture : an elementary treatise designed as a text-book for beginners in agriculture and horticulture. Horticulture; Botany. The Flozvcr. 91 154. Perfect, Monoecious (mo-na3'-cious) and DicEcious (dioe'cious) Flowers. Flowers containing both stamens and pistils (or pistil), as in the apple, tomato, cabbage, etc., are called perfect or hermaphroditu (her-maph'-ro-dite); those con- taining but one of these organs as in tbe melon, Indian corn, etc., are called imperfect or unisexual (u'-ni-sex'-u-al).* Flowers of the latter class are called monoecious when the stamen-bearin
. Principles of plant culture : an elementary treatise designed as a text-book for beginners in agriculture and horticulture. Horticulture; Botany. The Flozvcr. 91 154. Perfect, Monoecious (mo-na3'-cious) and DicEcious (dioe'cious) Flowers. Flowers containing both stamens and pistils (or pistil), as in the apple, tomato, cabbage, etc., are called perfect or hermaphroditu (her-maph'-ro-dite); those con- taining but one of these organs as in tbe melon, Indian corn, etc., are called imperfect or unisexual (u'-ni-sex'-u-al).* Flowers of the latter class are called monoecious when the stamen-bearing {staminate (stam'-i-nate)) and pistil-bearing {pistillate (pis'-til-late)) flowers are both produced on the same individual plant, and dioecious when produced on differ- ent plants only, as in the hop and date. In a few plants, as the strawberry (155) and asparagus, some individuals pro- duce perfect, and some imperfect flowers. 155. Planting with Reference to Pollination is im- portant in certain plants. All dioecious plants (154) in- tended for seed or fruit must have staminate and pistillate plants growing near together or they will not be productive. The hop plant and date palm are of this class. The flowers of many of our most productive varieties of strawberry yield little or no pollen, and are unproductive unless growing near pollen-bearing sorts (Figs. 54, 55). In many varieties of American plums, and in certain. Fig. 54. Fig. 55. Fig. 54. Imperfect flower of the strawberry. Fic. 55. Perfect flower of same. The Du- merous pistils appear in a circular mass at the cCDter, arouud which the stamens are seen in varieties of the pear, the pollen, even though produced freely, is infertile on stigmas of the same varietj'. To insure *The terms hermaphrodite, unisexual and bisexual, though often applied to flowers, are hardly Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration
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