Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Volume 25W. White, 1878 - Agriculture Vols. for 1889-1894, 1906-1912 issued with the Annual report of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station; vols. for 1895-1905 issued with the Annual report of the Hatch Environment Station of the Massachnusetts Agricultural College. |
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Page 67
... species was a distinct creation . Now , those three theories account , in their way , for the introduction of plant - life on the globe , and the production of the present species as we find them . But , when we trace all these flowers ...
... species was a distinct creation . Now , those three theories account , in their way , for the introduction of plant - life on the globe , and the production of the present species as we find them . But , when we trace all these flowers ...
Page 68
... species , that you do all your work here . - And now I wish to bring out a new law of plant - develop- ment , which , although it seems simple enough when stated All has caused me a good deal of study . 68 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE .
... species , that you do all your work here . - And now I wish to bring out a new law of plant - develop- ment , which , although it seems simple enough when stated All has caused me a good deal of study . 68 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE .
Page 71
... species , finally ends in what would seem to be the destruction of the species , because , when you carry this variation so far as to destroy the stamens and pistils , just that moment you have destroyed the plant , so far as the seed ...
... species , finally ends in what would seem to be the destruction of the species , because , when you carry this variation so far as to destroy the stamens and pistils , just that moment you have destroyed the plant , so far as the seed ...
Page 72
... species , because it cannot produce seed . - - But did you ever see any plant whose flower could be made perfectly double , that could not be propagated in other ways than by seed by root , by stem , by bud , or graft . You have annual ...
... species , because it cannot produce seed . - - But did you ever see any plant whose flower could be made perfectly double , that could not be propagated in other ways than by seed by root , by stem , by bud , or graft . You have annual ...
Page 73
... species . You see , then , that we can divide all these plants that we talk about here , day after day , into these two great classes . In many of them you can run the idea of beauty until the power of reproducing their kind is lost ...
... species . You see , then , that we can divide all these plants that we talk about here , day after day , into these two great classes . In many of them you can run the idea of beauty until the power of reproducing their kind is lost ...
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