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SEEDLING ^PEOPAGATION OF VARIETIES. 



The stamens when cut away must not be ripe 

 enough for their pollen to communicate with and 



rig.1. 



rig. 2. 



Fig. 1 A fruit laud near ■blossoming. 



Fig. 2. Eepresents a coronal of flowers from a single bud. 



fertilize their own pistils. The pollen used for impreg- 

 nating must be ripe and j)owdery, and the stigma of 

 the pistil must be damp. It was in this way that Mr. 

 Knight produced his Monarch, Dummore, and other 

 fine Pears, though the general results of this process 

 do not seem to be remarkable. 



Mr. Louis Bercejsians, from w^hom I have freely 

 drawn information for this work, has some 30,000 

 seedlings of his own ^propagation and of collections 

 from Yan Mons, Esperix, Bivort, Dr. Brinckle, and 

 other eminent pomologists, which he has selected by 

 various marks and tokens which are eloquent to him 

 in prophesying the merits of their fruits. He does 

 not, I think, after a long experience, pay much atten- 

 tion to artificial hybridization for producing new 

 varieties. 



I:Totwithstanding the splendid results of a systematic 



