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with the following results :—— 
; Bushels. 
Wheat fecundated . . . 46 
Wheat not fecundated . . 34 
Rye fecundated . . . . 38 2244 9% 
Rye not fecundated . . , 95 1408 
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This experiment is entirely in favour of making use of Hooibrenk's me- 
thod ; but it appears that in another experiment on a much smaller scale, — 
à square metre (39:37 inches) only being taken, the result was not nearly 
so satisfactory ; in fact, it indicated that the method was of little orno | 
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y Mr. Darwin's minute investigations, to assume, without careful expe- 
riment, that habitual self-fertilization is roved by the observed fact, how- 
ever Interesting in itself, of self-pollenation, especially at a season when 
complete vigour would be more than usually necessary $—W. E. HART. 
PERTILIZATION OF PLANTS. Tho term « self-fertilization " appear 
iis tac plied toot to plants, in two widely different senses, being 
app the impregnati by pollen from 
anthers of the same flower, ou vede by po "s 
from other flowers on the same plant 
as it seems to me, the te is strictly a 
à e term being really n0 — 
such thing as the fertilization of a plant. [t is, too, in this first sense — 
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Four | 
rods each of Wheat and Rye were cut, thrashed, weighed, and measured E 
Lb. E 
2728 per English aere. 4 i 
1848 È 2 
