'1 lie fullowing paper was read by R. M. Kellogg. 



BUD VARIATION IN THE STRAWBERRY PLANT 



R. M. Kellogg, Three Rivers, Mich. 



N pant affords better opportunities for studying bud variations tban 



1 St awberry New plants can be propagated and fruited every year 



d uh.le to the nov,ce they all appear ahke, yet a careful exam nation 



nil show cons ant changes going on n. ks vascular system making it 



possible to greatly nnprove them through the agency of selection 



of a olant'whTr /"7 ^" ^'"^'"^ "' ^"^ ^^^^"^^ '" ^^e vascular system 



To me it is surpassingly strange that the theory has been so generally 

 iwa ^ertl ^" P'^^-d ^-- P-P^^ated by buds are stable'in the. 

 limbTon h T o^^hard:st can find, not only certain trees but many 



nd heh '"^ "' "'"u^^ P"""'"^^ ''^^^^"^ ^'■^'^ ^- y^-^^ ■" succession 

 a var etv o7t ^'■^"^V^" ^^'f^ ^^'^'^ through h.s plant bed without seen.g 

 a variety of types m frmt and a vastly different degree in their productive 



h nial and°T 1,"'' '" '\' "^'""" '' '''' '''''' '' '^ ^''-^ - ^h^t of 



endT- \ T '""^ *^"' " "'"" '^°''" ^^■^^'^ i" P^'-t^ of the body shall 



spend his days without change? Is not the college curriculum for the 



ti7?'z:' : ''.^ ,'"v" "^' ^'^^ ^^"^•^^^•^"" ^- ^^- --^ p-t^ °f th 



aftef hi r !, ^ ''' ^°'" '" '^^^'^^^ ""' ^' ''' ' ^^°duct of development 

 alter his birth. Here we have no argument, but when it comes to devel- 

 oping any part of the physical organism of a plant so as to make it produce 

 different results it is said that it cannot be done. This is an error which 

 has misled the fruit grower and robbed him of the pleasures and profits 

 ol Ins business. 



For the past_ nineteen years I have conducted experimental plats with 

 the view of devising means of developing a stronger fruit-producing organ- 

 ism in the strawberry plant while in the nursery bed, and results of the.c 

 experiments have proven conclusively that it can be done 



From the first I have felt the force of the remark by Prof. Bailey that 

 VVe need not so much varieties with new names as we do a general 

 increase in productiveness and efficiency of the types we already po.ses= " 

 and so my efforts have been directed to breeding into the plant a stronger 

 vascular fruit-producing organism by favorable environment and continual 

 selection. To determine if such change could be effected, I made experi- 

 ments along as widely divergent lines as possible, holding that if there was 



