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where the seed was the produce of large, first leaves of the plant, fly affecting the crown 



transplanted bulbs, selected with the utmost in its infant state, &c. Such causes act upon 



care- and those bulbs were planted at a great the plant so as to make it produce m one 



distance from any flowering species of the year the effects seen m it when it is cultivated 



Brassica tribe, so that the change in cha- for seed. In the latter case we have the 



;;iiore. — From a Photograph. 



racter could not be the result of any hybridiz- 

 ing. 



It is well known that running to seed in 

 turnip may arise from causes that cannot be 

 prevented, such as a slight frost touching the 



growth checked by winter, and fostered in 

 spring ; in the former, the check given to the 

 plant by the injury it receives throws it 

 into a dormant state for a short time, and 

 recovering this, it then passes over the inter- 



