. Breeding crop plants. Plant breeding. 4 liUEEDISC CHOP PLASTS "In the vegetable kingdom there is accomplished no reproduction by seeds, that most perfect gift of nature, and the usual means of per})etuating the species, unless the previously appearing apices of the flower have already prepared the plant therefor. It appears reasonable to attribute to these anthers a nobler name and the office of male sexual ; Further Proof of Plant Sexuality.—The work of Camerarius was confinned by several men. Thomas Fairchild, in 1719, produced a new variety of pinks by an artificial cross
. Breeding crop plants. Plant breeding. 4 liUEEDISC CHOP PLASTS "In the vegetable kingdom there is accomplished no reproduction by seeds, that most perfect gift of nature, and the usual means of per})etuating the species, unless the previously appearing apices of the flower have already prepared the plant therefor. It appears reasonable to attribute to these anthers a nobler name and the office of male sexual ; Further Proof of Plant Sexuality.—The work of Camerarius was confinned by several men. Thomas Fairchild, in 1719, produced a new variety of pinks by an artificial crossing; of two. Fig. 2. -Male ami female flowers of date palm about two times size. (Photi>i/raj)h taken hy Swindle in Sahara Desert, IKttO.) varieties; and Bradley, two years earlier, found emasculated tulips set no seed. Miller, 1731, noted insects pollinating emas- culated tulips after first visiting untreated tulip flowers. Gover- nor Logan oi Pennsylvania, in 1739, experimented with maize and observed that detasseled plants set no seed when isolated from untreated plants. He also removed the silks and found such treated plants were incapable of setting seed. Gleditsch. 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 Hayes, Herbert Kendall, b. 1884; Garber, Ralph John, b. 1890. New York [etc. ] : McGraw-Hill book company, inc.
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