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assured us that there were distinct traces of the ears, 

 eyes, nose and mouth, before he artificially intensified 

 these organs by the use of the knife. 



Tuber.in-Tuber. Tubers are occasionally met with 

 where one is growing inside the other. The larger tuber 

 is the original " set," which was planted in the, ground, 



TUBER-IN-TUBER FREAK. 



and by some means an underground stem penetrated it 

 and in due course gave birth to a young tuber, which 

 developed within its parent. - ; 



Tuber Perforated by Twitch. This is a very 

 interesting example of the power of roots to force their 

 way through objects which resist their onward progress. 

 Kerner, in his " Natural History of Plants," affirms that 



