bulb-flowers

Updated: May 7, 2025

Our large bulb-flowers and delicious fruits have nothing in common with natural products, and do not yield a standard by which to judge nature's work. It is very difficult for a botanist to give a survey of what practice has attained by the asexual multiplication of extremes. Nearly all of the large and more palatable fruits are due to such efforts.

Hugo de Vries - Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation