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Ox. Valdiviana

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a laughable idea that pollen should be brought from flowers of the same species, none of which grew nearer than between 500 and 600 yards.*(b) The result was that 289 of these 520 flowers yielded no seed, or seed that did not germinate; the seed of 29 flowers produced hybrids, such as might have been expected from the nature of the pollen employed; and lastly, the seed of the remaining 202 flowers produced perfectly pure plants, so that these flowers must have been fertilised by pollen brought by insects from a distance of between 500 and 600 yards.*(c) It is of course possible that some of these 202 flowers may might have been fertilised by pollen left accidentally in them when they were castrated; but to show