﻿Production 
  of 
  Double 
  Flowers 
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  cates 
  a 
  distinct 
  plan, 
  and 
  the 
  possibility 
  of 
  

   carrying 
  it 
  to 
  a 
  practical 
  conclusion 
  within 
  a 
  

   few 
  years' 
  time. 
  

  

  Something 
  more 
  is 
  known 
  about 
  other 
  cases. 
  

   Garden 
  anemones, 
  Anemone 
  coronaria, 
  are 
  said 
  

   to 
  have 
  become 
  double 
  in 
  the 
  first 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  

   last 
  century 
  in 
  an 
  English 
  nursery. 
  The 
  owner, 
  

   Williamson, 
  observing 
  in 
  his 
  beds 
  a 
  flower 
  with 
  

   a 
  single 
  broadened 
  stamen, 
  saved 
  its 
  seeds 
  sep- 
  

   arately, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  next 
  generations 
  procured 
  

   beautifully 
  filled 
  flowers. 
  These 
  he 
  afterwards 
  

   had 
  crossed 
  by 
  bees 
  with 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  colored 
  

   varieties, 
  and 
  in 
  this 
  way 
  succeeded 
  in 
  produc- 
  

   ing 
  many 
  new 
  double 
  types 
  of 
  anemone. 
  

  

  The 
  first 
  double 
  petunia 
  is 
  known 
  to 
  have 
  sud- 
  

   denly 
  and 
  accidentally 
  arisen 
  from 
  ordinary 
  

   seed 
  in 
  a 
  private 
  garden 
  at 
  Lyons 
  about 
  1855. 
  

   From 
  this 
  one 
  plant 
  all 
  double 
  races 
  and 
  varie- 
  

   ties 
  have 
  been 
  derived 
  by 
  natural 
  and 
  partly 
  by 
  

   artificial 
  crosses. 
  Carriere, 
  who 
  reported 
  this 
  

   fact, 
  added 
  that 
  likewise 
  other 
  species 
  were 
  

   known 
  at 
  that 
  time 
  to 
  produce 
  new 
  double 
  varie- 
  

   ties 
  rapidly. 
  The 
  double 
  fuchsias 
  originated 
  

   about 
  the 
  same 
  time 
  (1854) 
  and 
  ten 
  years 
  later 
  

   the 
  range 
  of 
  double 
  varieties 
  of 
  this 
  plant 
  had 
  

   become 
  so 
  large 
  that 
  Carriere 
  found 
  it 
  impos- 
  

   sible 
  to 
  enumerate 
  all 
  of 
  them. 
  

  

  Double 
  carnations 
  seem 
  to 
  be 
  relatively 
  old, 
  

   double 
  corn-flowers 
  and 
  double 
  blue-bells 
  being 
  

  

  