Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . Fig. 10. Result ofincomplete pol-lination. likely to be fecundated, and there may not be enoughto fill out all the space on the receptacle (Fig. 10).When the fruit is ripe the seeds should be plantedand cared for as heretoforedirected for growing plantsfrom seed, except that es-pecial care should be usedin all the operations toavoid mixture, or injur}- toj,.g g seeds or young to poi- Crossiug rcquircs much time,^^^*^ and accidents are liable tooccu
Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . Fig. 10. Result ofincomplete pol-lination. likely to be fecundated, and there may not be enoughto fill out all the space on the receptacle (Fig. 10).When the fruit is ripe the seeds should be plantedand cared for as heretoforedirected for growing plantsfrom seed, except that es-pecial care should be usedin all the operations toavoid mixture, or injur}- toj,.g g seeds or young to poi- Crossiug rcquircs much time,^^^*^ and accidents are liable tooccur all along the line, so that the result of asummers work may be, in the end, only a fewplants, most or all of which are worthless. Yetpersistent effort in this line should be encouraged,and in time the results are likely to repay all the at-tempts made. During the summer of 1890 considerable work wasdone by the writer in crossing different varieties andspecies of raspberries and blackberries in the hor-ticultural gardens at Cornell University. A num-ber of plants came through to fruiting age. Noteswere taken in the summer of 18
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