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of cultivation are likely to be perpetuated. Careful propagators 

 select young plants from those portions of the plantation which 

 produce what they consider to be the ideal berry, but as no two 

 propagators have the same ideal berry in mind, there must arise a 

 series of divergences in the type. It is certain that there are 



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diflferent strains of Wilson in cultivation, as there are different 

 strains of the Crawford peach ; and it is no doubt this very diversi- 

 ty in the variety which adapts it so readily to many soils and uses. 

 I often wonder if the original typeof the Wilson,wereittobeagain 

 introduced, would find so much favor as its modern progenj' does. 



