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of an individual that has the property of re- 

 storing lost parts and continuing its growth 

 indefinitely rather than propagation through a 

 succession of generations. 



It has been suggested that all trees that repre- 

 sent a particular variety of cultivated fruit say 

 all Baldwin apple trees or all Seckel pears are 

 separated parts of the original tree of corre- 

 sponding variety, and not descendants of that 

 tree. 



Holding to this point of view, tjien, it is clear 

 that the different "varieties" of apples should, 

 from a biological standpoint, be classified as in- 

 dividuals rather than as races. 



Their inability to reproduce themselves in off- 

 spring through the ordinary processes of genera- 

 tion denies them the rank of races or varieties 

 proper, let alone the rank of species. 



And after all the difference in appearance be- 

 tween two apples that rank in the catalogues as 

 specific varieties is not greater than we some- 

 times see manifested between brothers and sisters 

 of a human family. A man more than six feet 

 tall with florid complexion, light blue eyes, and 

 flaxen hair, certainly represents a type quite dif- 

 ferent from that represented by a woman less 

 than five feet tall with swarthy complexion and 

 black eyes and hair. Yet we sometimes see such 



