1885.] 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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that plants propagated from cuttings.grafts, suckers, Darwin seems correct. If two plants are in every 

 or in any way but by seeds, are individuals of the respect the same, why they are the same, and no 







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Anthunum splendidum. (See de>-ciiptuin opposite page ) 



same origin, and pollen from one plant to another cross-fertilizing can add anything more than exists. 



under these circumstances is not cross-fertilization, l But we know now, much better indeed than Mr. 



Now in a general sense, this proposition of Mr. I Darwin did, that new varieties can come into ex- 



