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it is always the same, or nearly the same, and 

 it is to be considered as an inherent quality of 

 the race. If left to themselves, the single indi- 

 viduals always produce singles and doubles in 

 the same quantity ; if cultivated after some spe- 

 cial method, the proportion may be slightly 

 changed, bringing the proportion of doubles 

 up to 60^ or even more. 



Ordinarily the single and double members of 

 such a race are quite equal in the remainder of 

 their attributes, especially in the color of their 

 flowers. But this is not always the case. The 

 colors of such a race may repeat for themselves 

 the peculiarities of the ever-sporting characters. 

 It often happens that one color is more or less 

 strictly allied to the doubles, and another to 

 the singles. This sometimes makes it difficult 

 to keep the various colors true. There are cer- 

 tain sorts, which invariably exhibit a difference 

 in color between the single and the double flow- 

 ers. The sulphur-yellow varieties may be ad- 

 duced as illustrative examples, because in them 

 the single flowers always come white. Hence in 

 saving seed, it is impossible so to select the 

 plant, that an occasional white does not also 

 appear among the double flowers, agreeing in 

 this deviation with the general rule of the ever- 

 sporting varieties. 



I commend all the above instances to those 



