This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...by the old method, with equal or greater certainty of making the intended combination, and so a person can have time to produce a, far greater number of different combinations and more individuals of each combination during the flowering season, than he can by the old method. If a variety with hermaphrodite flowers, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...by the old method, with equal or greater certainty of making the intended combination, and so a person can have time to produce a, far greater number of different combinations and more individuals of each combination during the flowering season, than he can by the old method. If a variety with hermaphrodite flowers, such as Concord, Herbemont, etc., is chosen for mother vine, then there is no surer or better method than that commonly recommended. However, by planting the two vines to be crossed or hybridized side by side in the vineyard row, the writer has been enabled to greatly expedite the work. The selection of parents was made when the vineyards were planted, and the various crosses or hybrids intended arranged by planting the pairs of vines in vineyard, to be operated upon when coming into bearing. In pruning time, an arm of each parent is trained alongside each other on same wire, and at flowering time a shoot of the mother vine has all the open flowers clipped off, and then all caps just about ready to shed, which will lift by inserting the point of a needle at base of petals and lifting gently are removed, the anthers all hooked off with a minute hook made by bending the point of a pin back upon itself at an acute angle, the hook being one-sixteenth of an inch long. After all flowers that will release their caps are thus treated, a cluster in bloom from the other parent vine is taken, turning it so as to touch the disc of the stigma of the emasculated flower, with the opening face of an anther just discharging pollen, each exposed stigma is thus treated, and then the shoot with the clusters of emasculated flowers, along with a shoot having flowers abundantly opening on it, from the other vine, are completely enclosed in gauze, or cheese cloth, to k...
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