60 



HOCKTXGS* GARDEN" MANUAL 



No. 1. No. 2. Xo. 3. 



When the blossom is as No. 1. quite developed, 

 and on the point of expanding, open the leaves or 

 petals with great care, and it will then appear as 

 figure No. 2 : then remove with a small pair of sharp 

 pointed scissors the whole of the stamens, leaving the 

 pistil only, as in figure No. 3 : gently close the flower 

 again, and screen it with muslin or otherwise from the 

 approach of insects, and when it opens of itself shake 

 the ripe pollen off the other tree over the pistil, care- 

 fully exclude insects, and the seed in the fruit thus 

 impregnated will produce the variety. 



There is not a fruit, grain, or vegetable growing 

 in Queensland which is not susceptible of improve- 

 ment and further acclimatization by this means. To 

 those who have the time what could be more inter- 

 esting than to attempt to give the English raspberry 

 the productive and hardy habit of our wild raspberry. 

 The writer has been informed that there exists a very 

 superior variety of native raspberry on the seaboard 

 between Brisbane and "Wide Bay, and a large and 

 excellent native yam in the same part of the country, 

 which might either be improved by cultivation, or 

 used advantageously to hybridize the West Indian 

 yam. it is believed that no attempt has yet been 

 made to obtain a new variety of the English potatoe 

 from seed, but there is no doubt that by perseverance 

 a sort might be originated possessing characteristics 

 peculiarly adaj ting it for cultivation in this climate. 



