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The scientific work that has formed the basis of the recent advancements in plant-breeding requires interpretation in easy terms to enable its understanding by interested people who have no technical training.The need of an interpretation of the recent developments in plant-breeding is emphasized further by growing interest in agriculture, horticulture and floriculture. This book is useful to those who want to know evolution and heredity, information concerning ...
The original import of the word "Plant evolution"--to unfold or to unroll, as a flower is unfolded--is too restricted, because, evolution is far more than the unfolding of something that already exists, as the germ develops and unfolds in the beauty of a rose; evolution is the incessant appearance of new qualities, new characters, new powers, new beauties, for which there is no antecedent in experience or no evident promise in the germ itself. The ...
The field of applied science, dealing with the practical or economic aspects of a subject, lends itself much better to such treatment than does the field of pure science. This is particularly true of botany. From earliest time plants have been intimately bound up with human existence. Not only have they played an important part in the everyday life of mankind, but they have had a profound influence on the course of history and civilization. Knowledge of the ...