Abstract
WHEN, in 1859, Darwin's “Origin of Species” first saw the light, naturalists were astonished at the large number and variety of illustrations the author derived from cultivated plants. This feeling was accentuated in 1868, when the “Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication” appeared. Previous to that time botanists had, for the most part, ignored the productions of the horticulturists, or looked upon them as so many sources of annoyance and confusion. With the publications just mentioned, there dawned upon the minds of thinkers the notion that what was done in nature slowly and gradually had been, and was effected by the gardener rapidly and, relatively, with equal certainty.
Plant-Breeding: being Five Lectures upon the Amelioration of Domestic Plants.
By L. H. Bailey. Pp. 293. Figs. 20. (New York and London: Macmillan and Co., 1895.)
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MASTERS, M. Plant-Breeding: being Five Lectures upon the Amelioration of Domestic Plants. Nature 53, 363–364 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053363a0
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