Half-Hour Experiments With Plants (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Half-Hour Experiments With Plants

There is opportunity for skill in the blending of different shades in a flower, far greater than the painter's skill in applying colors to the canvas.

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Excerpt from Half-Hour Experiments With Plants

"The wild species include some that are white in color as well as those that are pink or white striped with pink or with reddish veins. So there is opportunity to have a wide choice as to color variation. The cross might likely result also in giving the geraniums enhanced vigor, so that new races of perpetual bloomers would be produced."

"The Practical Essentials of Hand Pollenizing" (See pages 5-6), gives the details of the simple, yet practical, methods by which hybridizing is accomplished. The diagram below shows the construction of the geranium, and should be of further assistance in your work. It remains only for you to apply these methods to the geraniums you have chosen for your experiment.

(A) Inflorescence of a geranium; open flower on left showing condition with mature anthers and immature pistil; open flower on right showing condition with mature pistil and faded (defunct) anthers.

(B) Stamens and pistil from left-hand flower, enlarged.

(C) Pistil with stamens removed, enlarged.

(D) Mature stamen, enlarged.

(E) Mature pistil showing ovary, always included in stamen-tube, style, and radiating stigmas, enlarged.

Few plants among all the popular favorites have greater merits than the geraniums, and none perhaps offers better opportunities for interesting experiments that may be made by the amateur.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.