Agriculture for beginners . bel them properly. Hand pollination has this advantage — you know bothparents of \our seed. If pollination occur naturally youknow the maternal but have ?•• no means of judging the ^ paternal parent. You can readilv see, therefore, how • /. hand pollination enables youto secure seed derived fromtwo well-behaved parents. Sometimes we can breedone kind of plant on an-other. The result of suchcross-breeding is known asa hybnd. In the animalkingdom the mule is a com-mon example of this cross-breeding. Plant hybrids wereformerly called mules also,but this suggestive term
Agriculture for beginners . bel them properly. Hand pollination has this advantage — you know bothparents of \our seed. If pollination occur naturally youknow the maternal but have ?•• no means of judging the ^ paternal parent. You can readilv see, therefore, how • /. hand pollination enables youto secure seed derived fromtwo well-behaved parents. Sometimes we can breedone kind of plant on an-other. The result of suchcross-breeding is known asa hybnd. In the animalkingdom the mule is a com-mon example of this cross-breeding. Plant hybrids wereformerly called mules also,but this suggestive term isalmost out of use. It is only when plants oftwo distinct kinds are crossedthat the result is called a hybrid ; for example, a blackjackoak on a white oak, an apple on a pear. If the parent plantsare closely related, for example, two kinds of apples, theresulting plant is known simply as a cross. Hybrids and crosses are valuable in that they usually differfrom both parents and yet combine some qualities of PlG. 37 The bud on right at top is in proper con-dition for removal of anthers; the anthershave been removed from the buds below
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