The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-06-11
[coPYRIGHTED.l
A Treatise on the Citrus Family.
BY NJ. GEORGE GALLEsIo

BY NJ. GEORGE GALLEoiOs
Translated from the French. expressly for The
Florida AgricuttaTfst
CHAPTER /.
ART. VI.-The theory Of cegetable repro
duction.
NY experience as whole sufficiently
substantiated the most of the phenom-
ena presented by the multiplication from
seed. They determined the origin OF
the varieties in plants. But it remained
still to know the secret causes OF these
results-why nature departed in some
cases from the system generally followed
in reproduction.
Every seed in nature is only the germ
which is to renew the Individual which
produced it; but some vegetables we
have seen depart from this system.
What is the cause of these exceptions :?
/ observed that these phenomena took
place from preference in the seeds taken
from plantations where there was mix
ture of species or varieties; that lemons
gathered in the garden where there were
citrons gave more varieties than those
from trees standing alone; that the seed
u tlle DaaGk cappage wa1Jm i.u ~ I;er
IN the midst OF many capDages oi olner- a
eng Varleues; Proouce0 IequenGiy cap
Dage TemaIkapiy wen neaueu, Mucn
sougnI lor lIS aeilcacy anu "IlVeness ~
InaI Cne seeu u Ine cIoM iooI VI ssxeiai t;x',
c0loIs, Which 5 cu5clvaeeu ~ quallSity -
plots oo my garuen, gaNe veIy 9iSen
oouple MOWERS, WINE Iills u.u ny nap
pen MAV1l cnS soeuS u 9ilo nailio III Ils 70
WIG MIltCn : culIiyaeeu II Nases, eaeH Oy
iSsen, pelore cile eseapiisnilieno u ~
noWsr s'5 galuen. oaa.,+o5 :
Al 1liesS oDaeasaSloiI s1 PlUsS;tIeo Ps..;5s "a {
celeall alioey oeSm so = Il.
.nG oSeees, alu IT, aotad t41S
nueHce u .li5 poilGn Mllaen stAeoSsu
2 ~ ~ S.,so laof
5lasy aa,u .llSS q = go
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M sns Ps1' ion wi,s,,s VII Z ss
sr5rd IF Tea5f1ecfio,,s we're prdsented
TO NV mind. tits recognized, / reasoned,
t6at two W. differe,,t prin1ciples must coop
crate e1.erH for the renroduction of all organ
i1ed heinos We know that when these
r,r;nc;nles belong to different species
i,,o,, ,,, stros;ties resnlt. such as mules
anono animals. and among vegetables
the n1ants known under the name of
hvhr5ds.
Wbv NAV. NOT this principle, which
effects SO MANY phenomena, be the
cause of monsters and varieties? These,
# is frue. do not prove the mixture, for
thew lated trees: but it is necessary that
the are produced even from the seed of |
isolated trees: but is it necessary that
the nrincinles of two different species
mite in formulation in order to change
the nhvsiogno1ny of the product2 Can
not This he as well ACCOMPLISHED by diff
farent nronerties of the two agents in
the same snecies. and perhaps also by
a difference in the force of their action,
or hv defect in the analogy in their
principles? Is it not from the different
proportion of these two agents OF organic
reproduction, that results this marvellous
variety. distinguishing all animals by
neculiar physiognomy There is no
fruit in the same plant even which is
like any. other.
MIGHT not the inequality which exists
among the fruits of a single tree, as we
observe If among the children of the
same father. exists still more pronounced
between the fruits of two different plants,
not not the pollen Of the flower Of one peach
tree have family likeness when would
make 1t different from thag Oh tne mower
of another peach tree, and II these Two
peach trees. modlf1ed IN their conception