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produced from cuttings they are rare. Certain varieties produce 

 many more abnormal seedlings than others. 



7. New types of cane are produced by crossing varieties. 



8. Variation is apparently increased by a single combination of 

 two varieties. 



9. Crossing seems to produce a recombination of characters of the 

 parents in some of the resulting seedlings, this probably being due 

 in a measure, to dominance of certain characters derived from each 

 parent. 



10. Only slight differences in sugar content of the juice have 

 been observed between groups of seedlings produced from differ- 

 ent varieties. 



