How Plants Are Trained to Work for Man: Grafting and Budding

The fragrance of the flower was not put forth to please or displease man, but to please and attract the insect. In the case of the scented calla it was perfume that differentiated a particular individual from thousands of other individuals growing in the same plot.

At an early stage of Burbank's almost endless series of experiments in the hybridizing of plums, he chanced to hear of a so-called seedless plum that was said to grow in France, where it had been known for a long time as a curios...