THE SURVIVAL OF THE 

 UNLIKE 



COLLECTION OF EVOLUTION ESSAYS 

 SUGGESTED BY THE STUDY OF 

 DOMESTIC PLANTS 



L. H. BAILEY 



The study of domestic productions will rise immensely in value. 

 — Darwin, Origin of Species. 



Botanists have generally neglected cultivated varieties as beaeath their notice 

 —Darwin, Animals and Plants under Domestication. 



FIFTH EDITION 



THE MACMILLAN COMPANY ^"^ <! 



LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd, r^ /fCsf* 



1906 x° ij*'^ 



AU rii/hta reserved oV^ ^^^ O 



