200 DOUBLE FLOWERS. 



the essential organ? of the flower, flies from the gaudy 

 productions of the garden, in which those organs are 

 obliterated, to the modest but more interesting orna- 

 ments oftbe field. It has been observed that the flow- 

 ers of Grasses and other plants, whose seeds are em- 

 ployed as food, though nourished by the richest soil, 

 never become double. In this respect they are very 

 unlike those blossoms which are cultivated for orna- 

 mental purposes. 



