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  Ever-sporting 
  Varieties 
  

  

  same 
  term 
  for 
  such 
  changes 
  as 
  for 
  common 
  

   variations. 
  It 
  is 
  more 
  a 
  contention 
  of 
  opposite 
  

   characters 
  than 
  a 
  true 
  phenomenon 
  of 
  simple 
  

   variability. 
  Or 
  perhaps 
  we 
  might 
  say 
  that 
  it 
  

   is 
  the 
  effect 
  of 
  the 
  cooperation 
  of 
  a 
  very 
  vari- 
  

   able 
  mark, 
  the 
  twisting, 
  with 
  a 
  scarcely 
  varying 
  

   attribute 
  of 
  the 
  normal 
  structure 
  of 
  the 
  stem. 
  

   Between 
  the 
  two 
  types 
  an 
  endless 
  diversity 
  pre- 
  

   vails, 
  but 
  outwardly 
  there 
  are 
  limits 
  which 
  are 
  

   never 
  transgressed. 
  The 
  double 
  race 
  is 
  as 
  per- 
  

   manent, 
  and 
  in 
  this 
  sense 
  as 
  constant, 
  as 
  any 
  

   ordinary 
  simple 
  variety, 
  both 
  in 
  external 
  form, 
  

   and 
  in 
  its 
  intimate 
  hereditary 
  qualities. 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  succeeded 
  in 
  discovering 
  some 
  other 
  

   rich 
  races 
  of 
  twisted 
  plants. 
  One 
  of 
  them 
  

   is 
  the 
  Sweet 
  William 
  (Dianthus 
  barbatus), 
  

   which 
  yielded, 
  after 
  isolation, 
  in 
  the 
  second 
  

   generation, 
  25$ 
  of 
  individuals 
  with 
  twisted 
  

   stems, 
  and 
  as 
  each 
  individual 
  produces 
  often 
  

   10 
  and 
  more 
  stems, 
  I 
  had 
  a 
  harvest 
  of 
  

   more 
  than 
  half 
  a 
  thousand 
  of 
  instances 
  of 
  this 
  

   curious, 
  and 
  ordinarily 
  very 
  rare 
  anomaly. 
  My 
  

   other 
  race 
  is 
  a 
  twisted 
  variety 
  of 
  Viscaria 
  ocula- 
  

   ta, 
  which 
  is 
  still 
  in 
  cultivation, 
  as 
  it 
  has 
  the 
  very 
  

   consistent 
  quality 
  of 
  being 
  an 
  annual. 
  It 
  yield- 
  

   ed 
  last 
  summer 
  (1903) 
  as 
  high 
  a 
  percentage 
  as 
  

   65 
  of 
  twisted 
  individuals, 
  many 
  of 
  them 
  repeat- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  monstrosity 
  on 
  several 
  branches. 
  After 
  

   some 
  occasional 
  observations 
  Gypsophila 
  pani- 
  

  

  