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average, and therefore it is that I claim for my experiments a greater 

 probability of being free from errors of this kind, as they are upon a 

 smaller scale, and I could weigh the whole results. And, as they are such 

 as a knowledge of Vegetable Physiology would lead us to expect, I have 

 no doubt of their truth. 



" I would now mention, that when the plants of the nine plots were 

 being thinned, twenty-four plants of each kind were transplanted, 

 thus making nine transplanted plots. Of these, half were stripped, as in 

 the previous experiments, the other half, as in them, being left intact. As 

 these results are of great interest I give them. 



" TABLE OF RESULTS— TRANSPLANTED MANGEL WURTZEL. 



" These experiments, I hope, wiU not be without value, in both a 

 practical and a theoretical point of view : and if laid before the Cotteswold 

 Club, they may lead to some interesting observations." 



