Excerpt from The Pomological Manual, Vol. 2: Or, a Treatise on Fruits: Containing Descriptions of a Great Number of the Most Valuable Varieties for the Orchard and Garden The power of procuring intermediate varieties by the intermixture of the pellen and stigma of. Two different parents is, however, that which most deserves consideration. We all know that hybrid plants are constantly produced in every garden, and that improvements of the most remarkable kind are yearly occurring in consequence. Experiments are, however, it maybe supposed, sometimes made without the operator being exactly aware either of the precise nature of the action to which he is trusting for success, or of the limits Within which his experiments should be confined. Cross fertilization is effected, as every one knows, by the action of the pollen of, one plant upon the stigma of another. The nature of this action is highly curious. Pollen consist of extremely minute hollow balls or bodies their cavity is filled with fluid, in which swim particles, of a figure varying from Spherical to oblong, arid having an apparently spontaneous motion. The stigma is composed of very lax tissue, the intercellular passages of which have a greater diameter than the moving particles of the pollen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.