FERRY-MORSE SEED CO. 
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Building a cage about a carrot plant, at Salinas. No pollen from any 
other flower can reach this plant 
Hand pollinating a squash blossom, at Oakview. When a selected nude 
blossom is ripe and a chosen female blossom is ready for pollen, men 
untie the tuo flowers, which were bagged separately before each could 
open, and transfer the pollen with a sterilized instrument 
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The seed saved from the caged carrot plant shown above produced 
these carrots. As these roots were practically perfect, they were 
planted for increase 
