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Silene, and has no resemblance to it, either in flower or 

 foliage. 



Scores of other instances could be cited, if time would 

 permit ; but enough has been shown, I think, at least to 

 throw doubt on the theory, that the stock affects the in- 

 dividuality of the graft. In the past quarter of a cen- 

 tury, millions upon millions of Bartlett Pears and Bald- 

 win Apples have been grafted upon millions of stocks; 

 and yet to-day they are as true to their individuality 

 as the Concord Grape or Wilson's Strawberry, that 

 are perpetuated by cuttings or runners, and not one of 

 them is in any way changed from what it was when it 

 first appeared, unless by the temporary accidents of soil 

 or climate. 



I believe that the smallest or the greatest of God's 

 creations has a separate and distinct individuality, and 

 that they cannot be blended, except by generation, and 

 that the product of generation, whether in the lowest 

 microscopic germ, or in the highest type, man, has an 

 individuality distinct and separate that it cannot attach 

 to another. 



