. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 110 The American Florist. Feb. g. Plant Introduction. An article on "Plant Introduction for the Plant Breeder," by David Fair- child, has been reprinted from the De- partment of Agriculture's Yearbook for 1911. "It is new nearly two cen- turies," says Mr. Fairchild, "since the first successful attempt to hybridize plants was made by an English gar- dener. This seems a long time if meas- ured in the terms of mechanical in- vention, but when it is remembered that with most plants such a cros
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 110 The American Florist. Feb. g. Plant Introduction. An article on "Plant Introduction for the Plant Breeder," by David Fair- child, has been reprinted from the De- partment of Agriculture's Yearbook for 1911. "It is new nearly two cen- turies," says Mr. Fairchild, "since the first successful attempt to hybridize plants was made by an English gar- dener. This seems a long time if meas- ured in the terms of mechanical in- vention, but when it is remembered that with most plants such a cross as that first one produced can be made only once a year, the accomplishments of plant hybridization appear truly re- markable. A mechanic makes a new machine and tests it at once; a plant breeder makes a new cross, but must wait for the following season, and if his plant is a tree or shrub he must wait for many seasons before he knows whether he has obtained from his cross something worthless or a new hybrid which is an improvement over that which the world already ; The practical value of plant breeding and the influence of new environment are treated fully by Mr. Fairchild, who speaks hopefully of the expected re- sults from the introduction of hardy wild stock from Asia and elsewhere. The crossing of these with native stock is expected to produce hardier plants and an improved fruit- "Eighty years ago the way in which plants were built up was so imper- fectly understood, says Mr. Fairchild, that the cell organ called the nucleus, which has come to play such an im- portant role in plant hybridization, had not been discovered; while the presence of a definite mechanism by which the matter that is transmitted from parent to offspring is divided and redivided until every cell in the entire body of the offspring has re- ceived a portion of the substance of the parent was not so much as even suspected. "The influence which the introduc- tion of a single new sp
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