. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. Works by Professor Bailey The Survival of the Unlike A Collection of Evolution Essays Suggested by the Study of Domestic Plants By L. H. BAILEY Professor of Horticulture in the Cornell University THIRD EDITI0N~515 PAGES â22 ILLUSTRATIONS â$ TO those interested in the underlying philosophy of plant life, thi
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. Works by Professor Bailey The Survival of the Unlike A Collection of Evolution Essays Suggested by the Study of Domestic Plants By L. H. BAILEY Professor of Horticulture in the Cornell University THIRD EDITI0N~515 PAGES â22 ILLUSTRATIONS â$ TO those interested in the underlying philosophy of plant life, this volume, written in a most entertaining style, and fully illustrated, will prove welcome. It treats of the modification of plants under cultivation upon the evolution theories, and its attitude is char- acterized by the author's well-known originality and independence of thought. Incidentally, there is stated much that will he valuable and suggestive to the working horticulturist. It may well be called indeed, a philosophy of horticulture. The Survival of the Unlike comprises thirty essays touching upon The General Fact and Philosophy of Evolution (The Plant Individual, Experimental Evolution, Coxey's Army and the Russian Thistle, Recent Progress, etc.); Expounding the Fact and Causes of Variation (The Supposed Correlations of Quality in Fruits, Natural History of Synonyms, Reflective Impressions, Relation of Seed-Bearing to Cultivation, Varia- tion after Birth, Relation between American and Eastern Asian Fruits, Horticultural Geography, Problems of Climate and Plants, American Fruits, Acclimatization, Sex in Fruits, Novelties, Promising- Varieties, etc.); and Tracing the Evolution of Particular Types of Plants (The Cultivated Strawberry, Battle of the Plums, Grapes, Progress of the Carna- tion, Petunia, The Garden Tomato, etc.). "Whatever Professor Bailey writes is in- teresting reading. He has the rare gift of an entertaining stjde, and what he writes people want to r
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