IN THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



ized many varieties of beans, and has found it 

 feasible to segregate and recombine the traits of 

 different varieties in almost any desired combina- 

 tion. 



By hybridizing and selection he has been able 

 "to put the pod of one bean on the vine of an- 

 other," somewhat as Mendel did with his peas. 

 He has operated with about forty varieties of 

 beans, and has produced new combinations almost 

 infinite in number. No plant, he says, can present 

 greater surprises or wider diversity among the 

 hybrid progeny. And he thinks that the bean 

 offers as many inducements for improvement as 

 any other plant under cultivation. It is a plant 

 that should prove peculiarly attractive to the 

 amateur. 



Many varieties of beans are available, and they 

 may be grown readily in any corner of the vege- 

 table garden. If you will hybridize almost any 

 varieties that are at hand, you may be sure of 

 interesting results next season. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH SWEET COEN 



Another plant with which you may experiment 

 with full assurance of interesting results is the 

 sweet corn. 



If you have chanced to grow in your gardens two 

 varieties of corn, one having yellow kernels and 

 the other white, you have probably noticed ears 

 that were mixed, bearing partly white and partly 

 yellow kernels. 



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