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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, a volume of original, historic and descriptive writings showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress (1901)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, A. J. Holman & co · leaf 124

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contended that to increase a plant by other means than by seedsmust be the closest kind of reproduction; yet some plants, coeval with thehistory of man, have been continued by offsets and are as strong and vigor-ous as ever. The Banana is an illustration. Under cultivation it producesonly seedless… … GRAINED CORN-TASSEL. 112 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY Though much has been recorded in this line to weaken the force of thespeculations that flowers late in the history of the earth developed color andsweet secretions in order to attract insects to aid in cross-fertilization, theyare…

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