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7 or 8. Work of this kind all tends toward the saving of 

 good seed, or the choosing of fine groups for exhibit. 



One can also try to breed 

 a little seed from two plants 

 of the same kind whose 

 flowers show excellence. 

 From an opening flower 

 take the stamens, and on 

 its pistils dust the pollen 

 from the stamens of an- 

 other. Then (as in Fig. 

 171) tie the first flower in 

 a common paper bag (to 

 keep out other pollen), 

 label it, write in the note- 

 book a memorandum of 

 it, and leave it to make 

 seed. 



From time to time you 

 will see, especially if you 

 are a vegetable gardener, 

 that some of the plants 

 have done their work, and 

 should be pulled up. Be 

 ready to do this promptly. 

 As soon as the beans yield 

 no longer, or the early 

 corn is finished, pull up 

 the plants, dig over the 

 ground, and put in the 

 next crop. As autumn 



approaches it will prove that you have no next crop to put 

 in ; that is, there is no time to mature vegetables or flowers. 



Fig. 171. — Seed breeding: a 

 flower. 



