The Tropical Agriculturist. The Agricultural Journal of Ceylon April 1934

It is only areas in the extreme north-east and soutwest where the effects of only one monsoon are of importance and even here the growth of fodder crops to tide over the dry period is not difficult of accoplishment. [...] The essence of the method"215 of vernalization is the elimination of the effect of natural gegraphical and climatic factors limiting the introduction into field cultivation of any desirable plant. [...] It is emphasized by the Russian workers "that the transition to the reproductive stage is not only independent of the size and age of the plant but is not correlated in time with growth. [...] The processes of vernalization are independent of growth but connected with the environment; if the external condition he favourable both for growth and qualitative change in the plant the plant will grow and pass through the stages preparatory to reproduction. [...] The fact that the process of PreParation of a plant towards reproduction may occur in the embryo and may he separated in time from the growth of the plant makes possible the practical application of the method of vernalization".