How Plants Are Trained To Work For Man

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THE CHESTNUT —BEARING NUTS AT SIX MONTHS A Tree Which Resioniw to EDuCAtTOli WHEN a boy in Massachusetts, I used to observe the great variation among the native American chestnuts in my father's woodlots. Like most boys I was fond of nuts, and in gathering them soon learned that there were certain trees that bore large, glossy, rich brown nuts with sweet meats, and that there were other trees that bore only small, flat, ash- colored nuts of...
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THE CHESTNUT —BEARING NUTS AT SIX MONTHS A Tree Which Resioniw to EDuCAtTOli WHEN a boy in Massachusetts, I used to observe the great variation among the native American chestnuts in my father's woodlots. Like most boys I was fond of nuts, and in gathering them soon learned that there were certain trees that bore large, glossy, rich brown nuts with sweet meats, and that there were other trees that bore only small, flat, ash- colored nuts of insignificant sifce and inferior quality. I observed that the trees that bore these seemingly quite different nuts differed also in size and in foliage, and particularly noted that such variations were not due to any local conditions, inasmuch as the trees bearing fine nuts and those bearing poor ones might stand side by side. Similar variations were noted regarding a good many other trees and plants of various kinds. But the variations among the Chestnuts,and also among the pignuts, hazels, hickories, shellbarks, and butternuts made a very rivid impression on my mind. It seemed strange that trees obviously of the same kind should show such diversity as to their fruit. When, at a later period, my experiments were started in California, it occurred to me that a plant showing such inherent tendency to vary should afford an unusual opportunity for development—for by this time I had come to fully appreciate the value of variation as the foundation for the operations of the plant experimenter. But I had conceived the idea also—as our earlier studies have shown—that there would be very great advantage in hybridizing the best native species of plants with plants of foreign origin. And the chestnuts were in mind among others when I sent to Japan and Italy and the Eastern States for new plants with which to operate. So the very first ...

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  • ISBN-13: 9780898752809
  • Publisher: International Law & Taxation
  • Publication date: 7/1/2001
  • Pages: 456
  • Product dimensions: 1.02 (w) x 5.00 (h) x 8.00 (d)

Table of Contents

Fixing Good Traits 7
Recording Experiments 33
Final Selection 53
Hastening Methods of Fruit Improvement 75
Some Practical Orchard Plans and Methods 99
Increasing the Productiveness of the Cherry 123
The Responsiveness of the Pear 153
Fuzzy Peaches and Smooth-Skinned Nectarines 181
The Apple--A Fruit Still Capable of Further Improvement 207
The Transformation of the Quince 235
The Apricot and the Loquat 261
Citrus and Other Fruits from the Tropics 287
How the Plum Followed the Potato 313
Burbank Plums and How They Were Produced 341

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