. Horticulture; a text book for high schools and normals, including plant propagation; plant breeding; gardening; orcharding; small fruit growing; forestry; beautifying home grounds; the soils and enemies involved. atoes, usinga soft brush and small glass vial foreach variety. Then pollinate twenty-five emasculated blossoms with eachof these five kinds of pollen, making125 blossoms in all. Bag and label eachof these. The label should show thename or number of each parent. Studythe results when the fruits ripen. Savethe seeds of each specimen, and num-ber them to agree with records kept ofthe c
. Horticulture; a text book for high schools and normals, including plant propagation; plant breeding; gardening; orcharding; small fruit growing; forestry; beautifying home grounds; the soils and enemies involved. atoes, usinga soft brush and small glass vial foreach variety. Then pollinate twenty-five emasculated blossoms with eachof these five kinds of pollen, making125 blossoms in all. Bag and label eachof these. The label should show thename or number of each parent. Studythe results when the fruits ripen. Savethe seeds of each specimen, and num-ber them to agree with records kept ofthe crosses. Compare the specimens inall characteristics, such as earliness,smoothness, firmness of flesh, size, pro-portion of flesh to pulp. Plant the seedsof each and continue the project forone or more seasons, selecting the mostpromising strains developed. 6. Improving Seed Potatoes.—Grow potatoes by the hill-row and label each row or section. Fig. 18.—After hand pollination the flow-n ,i • u r j. j. i j. j ers are bagged with paper to preventCompare the yields of potatoes planted other pollen from entering. Numbers on thefrom each hill. Again select the best label indicate the 32 PLANT BREEDING hills from the most productive row, and continue the project for one or moreseasons. 7. Corn Improvement.—Select the best ears of corn in the field or the seed from each ear in a row by itself. Again select the best ears fromthe most productive row. Continue the project as long as desired. This iscalled the ear-row system of corn improvement. 8. Improving Peaches.—In the peach orchard select a tree that producesbetter fruit than any others of its variety. Use buds from this tree in propa-gating new peach trees, as described in Chapter VI. Some of the buds may beused on trees of bearing age. They may yield fruit sooner than those buddingon young stocks. Compare the fruits thus produced with others. If the im-provement is pronounced, and is
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