Corn Tassels Bearing Kernels 



Ammg the most interesting of Mr. Burbank's 



experiments with corn are those in which the tassel of the 



corn, which in the cultivated plant bears pollen only, has been induced 



to develop pistillate flowers and seeds. This is a reversion to 



the ancestral form in which the seeds were borne 



at the tip of the stalk, as is still the 



case with most other grasses. 



