TEE RED SUNFLOWER 



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SuNFLOWEE Garden showing Heads with Bags. 



wird schon kommen ! " In 1900 three European workers almost simul- 

 taneously discovered Mendel's paper, and to-day " Mendelism " is 

 talked of everywhere, and books are written upon it. 



Mendel himself could hardly have foreseen the wide application of 

 his theory. It has been applied to animals and plants with like suc- 

 cess, and scarcely a month passes without the publication of new " Men- 

 delian results." In practical breeding, it has opened up a new era, and 



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