. Elements of Philippine agriculture. Agriculture. THE COCONUT 129 CULTURE Selection of Seeds. Coconuts to be used as seed should be picked from trees which are conspicuous among their neighbors growing under the same conditions for produc- ing large nuts, and many of them. There is no reason. Fig. 91. Coconuts gemiinating in set-d bed for selecting seed from prolific trees which are prolific simply because they grow in especially good places; for then the productiveness is not a character of the tree, but of the place, and the place cannot be inherited. It is best not to let the nuts of an es
. Elements of Philippine agriculture. Agriculture. THE COCONUT 129 CULTURE Selection of Seeds. Coconuts to be used as seed should be picked from trees which are conspicuous among their neighbors growing under the same conditions for produc- ing large nuts, and many of them. There is no reason. Fig. 91. Coconuts gemiinating in set-d bed for selecting seed from prolific trees which are prolific simply because they grow in especially good places; for then the productiveness is not a character of the tree, but of the place, and the place cannot be inherited. It is best not to let the nuts of an especially good tree fall to the ground, because some of them will crack. Neither is it a good plan to select large nuts out of a pile; for a tree with very few nuts often has especially large ones. Germination. Coconut seed are germinated above ground and are not planted until the roots and plumule appear. Seed nuts may be hung up in bunches in wet weather or stacked under a shelter and watered; but the. 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 Copeland, Edwin Bingham, 1873- [from old catalog]. Yonkers-on-Hudson, N. Y. , and Manila, World book company
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