TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Killing Weeds (Z.Z.). — The materialused for killing weeds on the streets was obtained from the Gas Company. If you make inquiries at their oflice, you will obtain all the information you require.
Hybridisation (X.V.).—There is no work on "artificial hybridisation" that we know of. There is no difficulty in performing the operation in an ordinary way, which may be done thus: .Vlie* you have chosen the two plants whicn you intend to hybridise, and decided which of them is to be the seed bearer, remove from this all the stamens as soon as the flower is sufficiently expanded to enable you to do so. See that the anthers have not yet burst and distributed their pollen on the pistil. Then tako from the other plant some of its pollen on the point of a camel's hair pencil, and apply it to the tip or the pistil, which is called the stigma, of the other, and that is all that is needful for you to do, Nature will do the rest.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8, 10 January 1902, Page 3
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