. Agriculture for beginners. Figs. 49 and 50. Chrysanthemum and Asparagus64 THE PLANT 65 secure seed from as we wish to produce another year. If wewait until the seed is separated from the plant that producedit before we select our cotton seed, we shall be planting seedfrom poor as well as good plants, and must be content with acrop of just such stock as we have planted. By selectingseed from the most productive plants in the field, and byrepeating the selection each year, you can continually improvethe breed of the plant you are raising. In applying this tocotton you may follow the plan sugge
. Agriculture for beginners. Figs. 49 and 50. Chrysanthemum and Asparagus64 THE PLANT 65 secure seed from as we wish to produce another year. If wewait until the seed is separated from the plant that producedit before we select our cotton seed, we shall be planting seedfrom poor as well as good plants, and must be content with acrop of just such stock as we have planted. By selectingseed from the most productive plants in the field, and byrepeating the selection each year, you can continually improvethe breed of the plant you are raising. In applying this tocotton you may follow the plan suggested for wheat Fig. 51. Two Varieties of Flax from One Parent StockAfter original in Year Book, United States Department of Agriculture The difference that you see between the wild and cul-tivated chrysanthemums and the samples of asparagusshown in Figs. 49 and 50 was brought about by just suchcontinuous seed selection. By the careful selection of seed from the longest flaxplants, the increase in length shown in the accompanyingfigure was attained. The selection of seed from those plantsbearing the most seed, but regardless of the height of theplant, has produced flax like that to the right in the illus-tration. These two kinds of flax are from the same parent 66 AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS Stock, but slight differences have been emphasized by con-tinued seed selection, until we now have really two varietiesof flax, one a heavy seed bearer, the other producing along fiber. You can in a similar way improve your cotton or anyother seed crop. Sugar beets have been made by seedselection to produce about d
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