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was selected as the mother plant—mother, as 
we say, because its flowers received the rye 
polleu (the male principle), aud were thus in¬ 
duced to l»ear the seed or fruit, as the grain 
(caryopsis) of the cereals is properly called. 
The flowers of wheat, if left to themselves, are 
close or self-fertilizing. It will lx> seen, upon 
examination, that when the anthers appear 
outside of the envelops (palets), aud the wheat 
is said to be in bloom, the kernel is al¬ 
ready partly formed and that the flower is, 
therefore, really beyond its bloom. If before 
the anthers can shed their pollen upon the 
stigmas (the top of the pistil or female organ) 
the authors (or male organs) are removed and 
the introduction of any pollen from other 
flowers is prevented by tying the head in tissue 
paper, it is evident that kernels cannot form. 
If the paper be removed, the flowers opened 
aud the rye pollen be thrown upon the stig¬ 
mas aud the paper replaced, if kernels should 
then form, it is evident that the i-ye pollen 
would be the father or male parent of the 
grain thus formed; in other words, a hybrid 
between rye and wheat would be produced. 
This is what was done, except that the tissue 
paper was removed and replaced each day 
for three clays for the application of rye pol¬ 
len. The result, as we have stated, was 10 
grains so small and imperfect that it was 
feared they would not germinate. Only one, 
however, failed, and though the nine plants 
made little growth during the Fall, they 
wintered safely. Eight of them resembled 
wheat in all respects, though each plant dif¬ 
fered somewhat from the others in leaf, stem 
and bight. 
The ninth plant resembled rye in the color 
of its leaves, aud later, it was seen t hat the 
culms just beneath the heads were downy, as 
in rye. The heads, 14 in number, at first re¬ 
sembled No 5 in the illustration, but later 
assumed the shrunken appearance of No. 3. 
Upon examination it was found that in all the 
14 heads there were but IT grains, only three 
or four of which were large or plump enough 
to give any hope of germinative power. Each 
grain, however, was planted with all possible 
care 10 inches from its neighbor, and, much 
to the writer’s surprise, 14 of the 17 sprouted 
and grew. The plants, however, were nar- 
(fxpmment (Bmrnd.s of the ittuval 
gUro-iiorkcr. 
THE RURAL’S RYE-WHEAT HYBRIDS. 
THOSE PLANTS MOST RESEMBLING RYE. 
THEIR HISTORY NOW COMPLETE UP TO THE 
PRESENT TIME. 
We have now to complete our history of 
the rye-wheat hybrids, which, four years ago, 
gave us the material for its first chapter. Our 
readers must bear in mind that the Armstrong 
THE RURAL’S RYE-WHEAT HYBRIDS, 
From Nature, Fig, 113, 
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