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Bearing this in mind nothing more is necessary 

 than to gather pollen and dust it on the stigmas 

 of plants that have already shed their pollen. 

 To make absolutely sure about guarding against 

 the self-fertilization of the flower, it would of 

 course be necessary to remove the stamens before 

 ripening, though this would generally be labor 

 lost. 



Some of my experiments in hybridizing have 

 been conducted with the idea of producing fra- 

 grant races of geraniums. The chief difficulty 

 in this work is that most of the fragrant gera- 

 niums have been grown for such a length of 

 time from cuttings that they have for the most 

 part lost the power of producing seeds. This 

 makes it obviously difficult to secure seeds from 

 the plants that are precisely the ones it would be 

 desirable to use for the purpose. 



Nevertheless, I have produced a number of 

 varieties having fragrance, of very attractive new 

 qualities. 



One of these fragrant varieties is developed 

 from a compact-growing Australian form which 

 produces an enormous amount of seed. This 

 fragrant variety, which I have named Coconut 

 Geranium, has a most pleasing fragrance and is 

 unusually hardy and handsome in growth and 

 foliage. Bearing as it does an abundance of 



