The Discoveries of Four Great botanists 



flowering plant * wholly dependent for the propaga- 

 tion of its kind upon seeds produced by the self- 

 fertilized method, providing, if need be, two varying 



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blossoms on the same plant in order to insure 

 the production ot some seed by the cross-fertilized 

 process. 



* These terms, flowering and non-flowering plants, used throughout 

 this explanation are not strictly correct, but answer all practical 

 purposes. In this volume we are dealing exclusively with flowering 

 plants which form only one part of the vegetable kingdom. Any 

 explanation regarding seeds or snores produced by asexual union in 

 ferns, mosses, etc., would lead us into the realm of non-flowering 

 plants — another great division of the plant world. 



