A PEACH WITH A DOUBLE PLUMULE. 

 By E. J. Hill. 



THE accompanying figure shows a seedling peach which was 

 found in my garden. Although several leaves had appeared and 

 both stems had begun to branch, they were so recent from the 

 seed as still to be curved downward at the top. The two coty- 

 ledons were fresh and plump, and must have supplied all the nourish- 

 ment of the plantlets, for rootlets were few and but just starting. 

 One stem was S^m-, the other 5*=™- high. A longitudinal section 

 through the lowest part of the stems showed that the bud of the 

 plumule had been a double one. Though the two stems were united 

 at the side for a short distance from the base, the bundles of fibers in 

 both ran separately to the same plane, and originated at the axis of 

 growth of the root and caulicle. The smaller stem was not the de- 

 velopment of a bud that sprang from the side of the larger, just above 

 its base, but the division or branching took place earlier in the growth 

 of the tissues. 



