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  Ever-sporting 
  Varieties 
  

  

  highest 
  degree 
  of 
  metamorphy 
  in 
  the 
  terminal 
  

   flowers 
  of 
  the 
  stem 
  itself, 
  the 
  weaker 
  branches 
  

   having 
  but 
  little 
  tendency 
  towards 
  the 
  forma- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  the 
  anomaly. 
  The 
  European 
  pine 
  or 
  

   Pinus 
  sylvestris 
  ordinarily 
  has 
  two 
  needles 
  in 
  

   each 
  sheath, 
  but 
  trifoliolate 
  sheaths 
  occur 
  on 
  the 
  

   stems 
  and 
  stronger 
  branches, 
  where 
  they 
  prefer, 
  

   as 
  a 
  rule, 
  the 
  upper 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  single 
  annual 
  

   shoots. 
  Camellia 
  japonica 
  is 
  often 
  striped 
  in 
  

   the 
  fall 
  and 
  during 
  the 
  winter, 
  but 
  when 
  flower- 
  

   ing 
  in 
  the 
  spring 
  it 
  returns 
  to 
  the 
  monochro- 
  

   matic 
  type. 
  

  

  Peloric 
  flowers 
  are 
  terminal 
  in 
  some 
  cases, 
  

   but 
  occur 
  in 
  the 
  lower 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  flower-spikes 
  

   in 
  others. 
  Some 
  varieties 
  of 
  gladiolus 
  com- 
  

   mence 
  on 
  each 
  spike 
  with 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  double 
  

   flowers, 
  which, 
  higher 
  up, 
  are 
  replaced 
  by 
  single 
  

   ones. 
  A 
  wide 
  range 
  of 
  bulbs 
  and 
  perennial 
  gar- 
  

   den-plants 
  develop 
  their 
  varietal 
  characters 
  

   only 
  partly 
  when 
  grown 
  from 
  seed 
  and 
  flower- 
  

   ing 
  for 
  the 
  first 
  time. 
  The 
  annual 
  garden-for- 
  

   get-me-not 
  of 
  the 
  Azores 
  (Myosotis 
  azorica) 
  

   has 
  a 
  variety 
  with 
  curiously 
  enlarged 
  flowers, 
  

   often 
  producing 
  20 
  or 
  more 
  corolla-segments 
  in 
  

   one 
  flower. 
  But 
  this 
  number 
  gradually 
  dimin- 
  

   ishes 
  as 
  the 
  season 
  advances. 
  It 
  would 
  be 
  quite 
  

   superfluous 
  to 
  give 
  further 
  proof 
  of 
  the 
  general 
  

   validity 
  of 
  the 
  law 
  of 
  periodicity 
  in 
  ever-sport- 
  

   ing 
  varieties. 
  

  

  