*7he rf-cdhesi of the Gotot Gn&p. 
Borne proudly aloft in all its majestic splen¬ 
dor is the tassel—Father of the corn crop. In 
the heat of the summer sun, the tassel ripens 
and its thousands of tiny anthers burst, ex¬ 
pelling millions of pollen grains (about 12 
million per tassel) into the air around them. 
Each dust-like pollen grain is capable of mat-' 
ing with a single cell on the immature cob 
thus producing a kernel, and each carries 
the characteristics of the parent plants, the 
strong points or weak, through the mysterious 
elements of inheritance to the future seed. 
