74 A YEAR IN A LANCASHIRE GARDEN. 



flower has itself fructified ' I am not botanist 

 enough to understand how this has happened. 1 



1 The editor of the Gardeners Chronicle explains " It is simply 

 an admixture of the seed-bearing flowers with the pollen-forming 

 flowers a not very uncommon event, though ordinarily the male 

 and female blossoms are borne in distinct spikes or panicles." The 

 effect is certainly very curious. 



