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* By the aid of very small anatomical scissors we endeavoured to cut 
* away the, as yet, unopened —s buds from a number of flowers of 
* Glagah and Loethers. After so doing we put into the thus partially 
& sterilised flowers of Glagha, der duit of Loethers and vice versd.” 
As a matter of fact it was not possible to ascertain, later on, whether 
this eross-fertilisation had suceeeded or not, however, almost at the 
same -— fertilisation са observed in the case of E a of the 
her tha e Loethers variety Ind 
true can - this year the 
бейте of seed was aed in nine diffe rent ное Sol “еб 
has given details of these in the following table : 
VARIETIES OF SuGAR-CANE PRODUCING SEED. 
-cen f h 
Name. EE Mowers which Seed. ER т pens minate 
rmed Seed. | Milligrams. 
Yellow cane - | Hawaii - 3:0 0:20 16 
Teboe batoe - | Borneo - 6:0 0:16 15 
Teboe koening - - тпео - 4*5 0°10 6 
anche - | Mauritius - 31:0 0°15 85 
TS - - | Mauritius - 0°37 0°20 — 
Teboe rapooh - -|Jav - 0°23 0 22 
Teboe soerat balie - | Java - 0°36 0:20 us 
Teboe soerat redjoe - | Java - 13:7 0:11 a: 
Teboe i - | Java - 0:8 0°20 20 
Glonggong - - | Java (wild) - 8:5 0°16 — 
h - | Java (wild) - 24°0 0°34 — 
“ Thus, in a spikelet of Branche blanche we found the greatest 
number of seeds, out of 100 flowers there were = on the average which 
ad formed one seed each. In the case of Tebo ж» we found the 
fewest seeds, as there was only one seed to 435 ot The seeds are 
exceedingly small, those of Glagah being the ee £c those of Teboe 
koening and Te boe soerat redjoe the smalles 
A very large number of the seedlings eer dit ; only from the yellow 
Hawaii cane did Soltwedel эз уе 1887) obtain strong plants which grew 
metres. In the 1888 he divided these into cuttings, and 
obtained from them in the own; year plants of 34 metres igh. 
From what has been stated, there can be no doubt as to the man to 
whom belongs the honour of the discovery of the s ne seed 
Without wishing to hurt the feelings of the West Indian investigators 
e German investigator. As far back as В 
wedel was actually in possession of the seeds, whilst the Barbados inves- 
tigators had in 1888 only arrived at a н (which was still open 
to dispute) as to the existence of seeds from germinating cane plants, 
and indeed had probably only ана the pee in the cane flower for 
seed, without being acquainted with the seed 
Further, besides Soltwedel, another BAR in Java, Dr. L. Ostermann, 
had in June 1887 obtained seedling plants by sowing whole tassels in 
moist soil (Benecke, page 51). Afterwards a chemist named Schmitz, 
Ostermann, and more especially Dr. F. Benecke, obtained numerous 
