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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



THE INDIVIDUALITY OF VARIOUS PARTS OF PLANTS 



PROF. SAM'l B. green, ST. ANTHONY PARK. 



We ordinarily think of a plant as having the same general char- 

 acteristics in all of its parts, that is, that a cutting from a branch 

 would make just the same kind of a tree that a cutting from the 

 stem would make. In the case of a few plants, however, this is not 

 so, and probably there is a greater difference in this respect than 

 we are prone to believe. 



Fig. 1. — A plant grown from a side 

 branch of the Auracaria excelsa. 



Fig 2. — Plant of the Auraoaiia excelsa 



from which the cutting was taken 



growing plant shown in Fig. 1 



The Japanese evergreen, known as Auracaria excelsa, shows 

 marked variations in plants grown from the side branches and those 

 grown from a central stem. In Fig. i a plant is shown grown from 

 a side branch. This makes a reclining plant and has to be tied in 

 order to give it an erect position. The plant from which this photo- 

 graph was taken is shown in Fig. 2, and it is noted for its very 

 erect and regular form. I have grown many plants from the side 



