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RESEDA LUTEA. 



CHAP. IV. 



weighed 90 '5 ounces; and an equal number of the self-fertfased 

 only 19 ounces, or as 100 to 21; and this is an astonishing 

 difference. 



TABLE XXXV. 



Reseda lutea, in pots. 



Seeds of the same two lots were also sown in two adjoining 

 rows in the open ground. There were twenty crossed plants in 

 the one row and thirty-two self-fertilised plants in the other 

 row, so that the experiment was not quite fair ; but not so un- 

 fair as it at first appears, for the plants in the same row were not 

 crowded so much as seriously to interfere with each other's 

 growth, and the ground was bare on the outside of both rows. 



