1654 



SELF -STERILITY 



tlier de%-elop aiiv tendency towards self-sterility and 

 separation of the sexes which the parent plant may 

 possess. 



(3) The careless practice of taking cions promiscu 

 oiisly from th( niirsei\ row uid from unreliable 

 source, m \ i q t t pit t i 1p 1 1 1 \ i hials 



(4) B, 1 II 11 iiihties than 

 those I i 1 I I ' tend to favor 

 these q I I I 1 I r 



(o) (.1 1 till raa^ tend to 



modifj the mrjluttiM igin^ and to produce self 

 sterility 



(6) Excessive cultivation and over feeding with ni 



growth I 111 



Sell 1 



are d 1 



Self steuhtv i "i- all in 



termediate gi 1 1 wholly self 

 sterile and th 



For a cond ii i ties < f 

 leading fiuits 

 self fertile s I 



3d edition pj I 



Flowers by Bl I II I \ 



Path U S Dept \^i V lull i I ] j il ir ti it 



ment of the whole problem ab it affects trnit growers 



will be found in Bulletin 181 Cornell Exp Sta 

 by S W Fletcher For the self sterility of grapes 



see Bulletin 169 N Y E\p Sta bv S A Beach For 

 plums see the writings of F A Waugh See Poll ina 



tion E P Sandsten 



SELiNUM(dpin t , 1 

 25 species of r it I I i 



the northern hi i I 

 Iv. and comi i 1 I 

 rarely j ellowisli I 1 



nate fr ovoid oi n( iil\ i 



tenui!61ium Wall {0>i kome Canddllei Edgew ) A 

 hardy perennial with hnel> cut fern like foliage and 

 stem often 8 ft high I i ii hf 1 with numerous umbels 



t mhellife-ife About 

 herbs mostly from 

 nately decompound 

 of smill white or 

 ils obovate emargi 



of white fis 

 olate acute fi I 1 



sally four to si\ I I 



much the bioi 1 III s 



a novelty in Anitrua in Ih u in 1 

 foliage plant for single lawn specii 



SEMECABFUS I 



use of fruit ]ui 

 cies of tropical V 

 leathery h s an I 

 fleshy oblont, 

 Anacirdium I 



I iiiowlj lance 

 1 1 1 ressed dor 

 I I 1 iteral ridges 

 1 1 -Offered as 

 rec immended as a 



F W Barclay 



lized 



about the s m 

 smooth black 

 is used for pr 



SEM£LE( mother of Bacchus) I/ihdcew The Climb 

 ihc Butchers Broom is a tender evergreen mu 

 which attains a height of 50-60 ft and is lemarkible 

 for beinng its flowers on the margins of the lea% es 

 instead of on separate flcwer stalks These fls are 

 small yellow 6 lobed blossoms about three eighths of 

 an inch across What i] | it 1 I \ s «p t I i 

 callj cladophvUa i t I t I I 1 It 



organs which h i\ e tin f i 



not the morpbologj Si I I 

 of 4 genera known as tl \ 

 bers ot which ha\c clil i 11 1 



the Butcher s Broom (7i ; i ) m h i m^ i utl ci in 

 stead of J and m ha% mg the fls boine on the margin of 

 the cladophylla instead of along the midrib. Aspara- 

 gus differs from both in having the fls. not borne on 



SEMPERYIVUM 



d the filaments free instead of grown 



nus of one species, a native of the 

 1 1 plant Is not known to be cult m 

 s but it IS suitable for outdoor 

 "s nth Franceschi (Santa Barbara) 

 I Tl siuilax and has dirk green 

 I 1 t 1 mistaken for some of the 



I s 1 nt 1 1 in_ chidodiv 



SEMPERViVUMd itn I ,f f 



HOISELLEK Abcut I I t 1 



scatteied in the i I I 



World The\ are ii 11 I | 



11 I Mill vse b\ ro tt (1 ^ 1 I 



1 I I iient plant therebj suggi t n^, tl i i il ir 



1 1 11 and chickens The h s are thick short 



I iknt The fls , which are boine m panicled 



le mosth \ II n ^t pi li U n or some 



sh i Ic it rose or i i I i Iniduvl 



fls are larger thai 1 I tei s arc 



Hon I 1 foil ige 



^^ ,.' 



roots of houses i 

 of S globifeium 

 parent plant by 







2310 Rosette and offsets of a H. 



the pli 



11 1 1 h ml roll il out The 

 the pettiest fthemall b\ reason 

 the \oung rosettes These webs 

 themseh es and are incidental to 



I num is closelv related to Sedum but the 

 fl 1 1 I Its au multiples of 6 or some larger numbei 

 while the flonl parts of Sedum are in 5 s The genus 

 IS a difficult one for the botanist. It has been mono- 

 graphed by J. G. Baker in "Gardener's Chronicle" for 



