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PROBABLY no scientific problem more urgently needs attention in tropical agriculture than the establishment of standard yielding plantations from selected plants by methods of vegetative propagation. The commercial demand in the centres of distribution is always for a regular supply of produce of standard quality, and so long as the grower collects his crop from a plantation of chance selected seedlings of almost infinite variety, this commercial requirement cannot be met. With increasing competition, as supplies of tropical products arrive from new centres, as the development of tropical areas proceeds apace, it was certain that this point would gradually be grasped, and that, if cultural conditions permitted, the produce from vegetative propagation of standard varieties would oust the original variable supply from seedling stock, just as in Europe, and now in the United States, vegetative propagation is the rule over all the vast acreage supplying the world's needs in table fruit.
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Vegetative Propagation in the Tropics. Nature 114, 556–557 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114556b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/114556b0