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  Ever-sporting 
  Varieties 
  

  

  ing 
  variety, 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  as 
  well 
  to 
  give 
  a 
  short 
  

   description 
  of 
  the 
  plants 
  with 
  double 
  flowers. 
  

   Generally 
  speaking 
  there 
  are 
  two 
  principal 
  

   types 
  of 
  doubles. 
  One 
  is 
  by 
  the 
  conversion 
  of 
  

   stamens 
  into 
  petals, 
  and 
  the 
  other 
  is 
  an 
  anomaly, 
  

   known 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  petalornany. 
  

  

  The 
  change 
  of 
  stamens 
  into 
  petals 
  is 
  a 
  grad- 
  

   ual 
  modification. 
  All 
  intermediate 
  steps 
  are 
  

   easily 
  to 
  be 
  found. 
  In 
  some 
  flowers 
  all 
  sta- 
  

   mens 
  may 
  be 
  enlarged, 
  in 
  others 
  only 
  part 
  of 
  

   them. 
  Often 
  the 
  broadened 
  filaments 
  bear 
  one 
  

   or 
  two 
  fertile 
  anthers. 
  The 
  fertility 
  is 
  no 
  doubt 
  

   diminished, 
  but 
  not 
  wholly 
  destroyed. 
  Individ- 
  

   ual 
  specimens 
  may 
  occur, 
  which 
  cannot 
  produce 
  

   any 
  seed, 
  but 
  then 
  others 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  lot 
  may 
  

   be 
  as 
  fertile 
  as 
  can 
  be 
  desired. 
  As 
  a 
  whole, 
  

   such 
  double 
  varieties 
  are 
  regularly 
  propagated 
  

   by 
  seed. 
  

  

  Petalornany 
  is 
  the 
  tendency 
  of 
  the 
  axis 
  of 
  

   some 
  flowers 
  never 
  to 
  make 
  any 
  stamens 
  or 
  pis- 
  

   tils, 
  not 
  even 
  in 
  altered 
  or 
  rudimentary 
  form. 
  

   Instead 
  of 
  these, 
  they 
  simply 
  continue 
  produc- 
  

   ing 
  petals, 
  going 
  on 
  with 
  this 
  production 
  with- 
  

   out 
  any 
  other 
  limit 
  than 
  the 
  supply 
  of 
  available 
  

   food. 
  Numerous 
  petals 
  fill 
  the 
  entire 
  space 
  

   within 
  the 
  outer 
  rays, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  heart 
  of 
  the 
  

   flower 
  innumerable 
  young 
  ones 
  are 
  developed 
  

   half-way, 
  not 
  obtaining 
  food 
  enough 
  to 
  attain 
  

  

  