. Plant life and plant uses; an elementary textbook, a foundation for the study of agriculture, domestic science or college botany. Botany. 3i8 FLOWERS branches of caprifigs from the staminate trees and place them among the branches of the pistillate figs. They knew this process improved the quality of the fruit, though they did not know why. It was because it made more certain the entrance of the weak-flying, pollen-bearing female wasps into the pistillate Fig. 138. — Pollination of the fig. B, lengthwise section through a seed-producing (pistillate) inflorescence; note a was
. Plant life and plant uses; an elementary textbook, a foundation for the study of agriculture, domestic science or college botany. Botany. 3i8 FLOWERS branches of caprifigs from the staminate trees and place them among the branches of the pistillate figs. They knew this process improved the quality of the fruit, though they did not know why. It was because it made more certain the entrance of the weak-flying, pollen-bearing female wasps into the pistillate Fig. 138. — Pollination of the fig. B, lengthwise section through a seed-producing (pistillate) inflorescence; note a wasp on top and another which has just crept inside. D, a. staminate inflorescence with numerous sterile pistillate flowers in which young wasps have hatched; note one near the opening crawling out. A, one of the short-styled sterile pistillate flowers. C, a long-styled fertile pistillate flower. E, young wasp just emerging from one of the sterile pistillate flowers within which it was hatched. Another remarkable thing about the fig is that it will mature its fruit (though not its seeds) even if pollination does not occur. Pollination, however, especially in the Smyrna fig, improves the fruit in plumpness, juiciness, and flavor. These figs are now grown in Cahfornia, where their culture has been greatly improved by the introduc- tion of the proper polKnating wasp. Commercial figs are propagated by cuttings, not by seeds, so pollination is not necessary in their 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 Coulter, John G. (John Gaylord), b. 1876. New York, American Book Co
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