. Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory, vol. 11. Botany; Botany. Zirkle: Early Plant Hybridizers 13 NEW • •. OF •« • •• • ••• Tlanting and Gardtning. BOTH thilofophical and^n&k^* EXPLAIN INQ The mO T 1-0 M ef th^ o Al? and Generation !tTS: With other Difcovcrics never before msuie Publick, foT the Impi'ov^aicnc of Fortcft^Trce*, Flower- Garclens, or P«rteA;cs j vith. a New ^ Invention whereby more Defigns of Garden Platts m^ be ttade inon Hour, than can be found in all the Books BOW extant. Ljkewifc fcvcral rare Secfets for the Improvement of Fruit-Trec$,Kitcheo dem, and Grec
. Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory, vol. 11. Botany; Botany. Zirkle: Early Plant Hybridizers 13 NEW • •. OF •« • •• • ••• Tlanting and Gardtning. BOTH thilofophical and^n&k^* EXPLAIN INQ The mO T 1-0 M ef th^ o Al? and Generation !tTS: With other Difcovcrics never before msuie Publick, foT the Impi'ov^aicnc of Fortcft^Trce*, Flower- Garclens, or P«rteA;cs j vith. a New ^ Invention whereby more Defigns of Garden Platts m^ be ttade inon Hour, than can be found in all the Books BOW extant. Ljkewifc fcvcral rare Secfets for the Improvement of Fruit-Trec$,Kitcheo dem, and Grecn-houfe Plants. :s^-^ Jigites 0 Adolefeenfesy ^ autequam Canicies vobh eirepat^ Stirpes jam atueritis,qM(t vobh, cum infigni utilitate, delecta- tioncia ctiamadfercnt. Pet. Bellomus, dc negleSl Stirpium cnlturi. By RICH A R O' BR AD LEY, Fellow of the ROYAL S O C TE T Y. LONDO N: printed for W. M e a R s at the Lmb with- • out T'm/./.-BT. MDCCXVir. Mif r iiii m^ TITLE-PAGE OF BRADLEY'S BOOK Figure 3 Richard Bradley (16??—1732) noted in the first edition of this book (1717) the fact that castrated tulips produce no seed, and de- scribed the technique of hybridization of primroses. Here is also to be found one of the contemporary descriptions of the experiments of T^homas Fairchild, who is credited with making the first artificial plant hybrid,—^between the Pink and the Sweet William. cumber Plants be set near them, lest the Male Dust of the Cucumbers should happen to be carry'd with the Wind upon the Blossoms of the Melons, and perhaps set them for Fruit, which will then certainly give the Melons, so produced, the relish of the Cucumber in Proportion as the Farina happens to fall in greater or lesser Quantity. These passages were known to Charles Darwin and were cited as evi- dence that the male elements influenced the mother's body.^ Unfortunately, Darwin, at that time, was marshalling all such instances which he could collect in an attempt to prove
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