 Through this instinct another important end is gained, in relation to the impregnation of flowers ; the production of hybrid plants by the application of the pollen of one species to the stigma of another is avoided, while those flowers are more effectually...  Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York - Page 346by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - 1852Full view - About this book
 | 1837 - 592 pages
...the embryo in plants we have already spoken. The production of hybrids in plants is readily effected by the application of the pollen of one species to the stigma of another nearly allied to it. Almost endless varieties may be thus produced; but mules are seldom fertile, except... | |
 | john forbes m.d f.r.s. and john conolly m.d. - 1837 - 608 pages
...the embryo in plants we have already spoken. The production of hybrids in plants is readily effected by the application of the pollen of one species to the stigma of another nearly allied to it. Almost endless varieties may be thus produced; but mules are seldom fertile, eicept... | |
 | C. T - 1847 - 316 pages
...aid by the bees passing from one to another, and the avoiding the production of hybrid plants from the application of the pollen of one species to the stigma of another. When the bee has completed her lading she fliea home in a direct line to dispose of it. The honey is... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1860 - 490 pages
...those in ordinary cultivation, Naudin had reduced to three or four) refuse to hybridize ; but that the application of the pollen of one species to the stigma of another, from which its own pollen is excluded, often causes the fruit to set and grow to its full size, although... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1860 - 472 pages
...those in ordinary cultivation, Naudin had reduced to three or four) refuse to hybridize ; but that the application of the pollen of one species to the stigma of another, from which its own pollen is excluded, often causes the fruit to set and grow to its full size, although... | |
 | American Institute of the City of New York - Agriculture - 1852 - 690 pages
...lead mines and lead works by inhaling lead dust, and elsewhere, not unfrequently, by drinking'water impregnated with lead. The metal being introduced...generally walk or stands upon the comb, beating her wings, and three or four of her fellow citizens assist in lightening her of her load ; or the laden... | |
 | John Darby - Botany - 1860 - 630 pages
...gardener ; as is exhibited in our grains, cabbages, turnips, peas, beets, &c. Hybrids are produced by the application of the pollen of one species to the stigma of a nearly allied species. Nature perhaps often exhibits the products of this operation to the perplexity... | |
 | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - Botany - 1862 - 194 pages
...according to some, originates the cell nucleus. HYBBID (hylrida, Lat. a mongrel), a plant obtained by the application of the pollen of one species to the stigma of another. HYDBOPHYTES (hydor, Gr. water ; phuton, a plant), plants living totally in water. HYGROPHANOUS (ugron,... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865 - 978 pages
...important end ie gained, in relation to the impregnation of flowers ; the production of hybrid planta by the application of the pollen of one species to...avoided— while those flowers are more effectually fertilised which require the aid of insects for that purpose. When a pollen-laden bee arrives at the... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 974 pages
...orange, pink, white, or even green-coloured ones ; but they are never observed to be party-coloured. Through this instinct, another important end is gained,...avoided — while those flowers are more effectually fertilised which require the aid Of insects for that, purpose. When a pollen-laden bee arrives at the... | |
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