Plant-Breeding: Being Five Lectures upon the Amelioration of Domestic Plants (The Garden-Craft Series Volume 2)

xii, 293, 3 pp. 20 illustrations, including black-and-white photographs and engravings. By the co-founder of the American Society for Horticultural Science. A standard guide on breeding various plants, with extensive information on pollination, cross-breeding / hybridization, classification, etc., with a helpful glossary and index following the text.