RAISING NEW VARIETIES. A layer, a cut- 

 ting, a bud, a graft, and a sucker, are detached portions of 

 an individual plant ; and the plant resulting from them is of 

 precisely tne same character with the parent. But, when 

 the seed germinates, it is not the reproduction of the same 

 individual, but it is the birth of a new one. The offspring 

 will show a family likeness ; but it is by no means probable, 

 at least in the case of the rose, that its features will be 

 precisely the same, with those of its parent. Plant the 

 seeds of a rose ; as, for example, of the Hybrid Perpetual, 

 La Reine, and of the resulting seedlings : all will probably 

 show traces, more or less, of their origin ; but the greater 

 ~ art will be far inferior to the parent. Some will be sin- 



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