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within our reach by some very simple means. Irv 

 general, whatever checks the luxuriant production of 

 ieaf-buds, favours the formation of flowers and seeds. 

 That variety, or perhaps species^ of the Orange Lily, 

 LUliim hidhiftrum^ which is most proliiic in buds, sel- 

 dom forms seeds, or even those organs of the flower 

 necessary to their perfection. So likewise the seeds of 

 Mints, a tribe of plants which increase excessively by 

 roots, have hardly been detected by any botanist ; and 

 it is asserted by Doody in Ray's Synopsis, that when 

 the elegant little Ormthopiis perpustUus, E?igl. Bot. 

 /. S69i does not produce pods, it propagates itself by 

 the grains or tubercles of its root, though in general 

 the root is annual. 



