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As the 1700s begin, people start to make a lot of progress in developing new varities of plants.
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Thomas Fairchild was the first to create a hybrid plant. He did this by simply extracting pollen from a carnation and inserting it into a "Sweet William" flower from his garden. This new creation became known as "Fairchild's Mule".
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek became the first person to see bacteria by looking into a microscope. He was able to see their shape and drew on paper while observing them.
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In 1724, Cross fertilization in corn was discovered.
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John Turbevill Needham heated different broths or "infusions" which eventually teem with life. He then concluded that there is a vegetative Force in every microscopical Point of Matter.
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European farmers increase cultivation of legumes, also known as bean plants, and rotate crops to increase yield.
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The first vaccination was given by Edward Jenner to an eight year old boy for the treatment of smallpox.
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Lazaro Spallanzani described in detail experiments he created using sealed lasks heated in boiling water to test the possibility of using heat to kill all the microbes in a infusion.
