Abstract
THE occupation of gardening is both ancient and honourable, though it is only in comparatively recent times that those engaged in it have paid much attention to the origin of the material with which they work. Whether for utility, for medicinal use or for sheer beauty, European gardeners in older days were content to grow the plants that they found to hand, adding to them such new things as were brought in by the voyagers gradually exploring the world. To their enthusiasm and energy the works of the herbalists bear witness. But while these noble compilations were in progress a new era in horticulture was dawning. The discovery of the nature of sex in plants, initiated by Camerarius and so ably followed up by Kölreuter, led to the organised production of novelties through the method of hybridisation.
The Genetics of Garden Plants.
By M. B. Crane W. J. C. Lawrence. Pp. xvi + 236. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1934.) 10s. 6d. net.
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The Genetics of Garden Plants . Nature 135, 83–84 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135083a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135083a0
