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HE SURVIVAL OF THE UNLIKE: 



A Collection of Evolution Essays Suggested 

 by the Study of Domestic Plants. By L. H. 

 BAILEY, Professor of Horticulture in the Cornell 

 University. 



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To those interested in the underlying philosophy 

 of plant life, this volume, written in a most enter- 

 taining style, and fully illustrated, will prove wel- 

 come. It treats of the modification of plants under 

 cultivation upon the evolution theory, and its atti- 

 tude on this interesting subject is characterized 

 by the author's well-known originality and inde- 

 pendence of thought. Incidentally, there is stated 

 much that will be valuable and suggestive to the 

 working horticulturist, as well as to the man or 

 woman impelled by a love of nature to horticul- 

 tural pursuits. It may well be called, indeed, a 

 philosophy of horticulture, in which all interested 

 may find inspiration and instruction. 



THE SURVIVAL or THE UNLIKE comprises thirty essays touching 

 upon The General Fact and Philosophy of Evolution (The Plant 

 Individual, Experimental Evolution, Corey's Army and the Russian 

 Thistle, Recent Progress, etc.); Expounding the Fact and Causes of 

 Variation (The Supposed Correlations of Quality in Fruits, Natural 

 History of Synonyms, Reflective Impressions, Relation of Seed- 

 bearing to Cultivation, Variation after Birth, Relation between 

 American and Eastern Asian Fruits, Horticultural Geography, Prob- 

 lems of Climate and Plants, American Fruits, Acclimatization, Sex 

 in Fruits, Novelties, Promising Varieties, etc.); ar.d Tracing the 

 Evolution of Particular Types of Plants (the Cultivated Strawberry, 

 Battle of the Plums, Grapes, Progress of the Carnation. Petunia, 

 Tne Garden Tomato, etc.;. 



