COLIN CLOUT'S CALENDAR. 



solitary specialty of a less juicy fruit. We know how 

 little trouble it takes to turn a single white may-blossom 

 into the double pink variety, or to produce our distorted 

 flowering almonds and our big many-petalled roses from 

 the normal form : it takes very little more trouble for 

 nature to turn an apricot into a peach, or to produce a 

 dry shell-covered almond from a juicy nectarine. Only, 

 since nature acts more slowly, and since her conditions 

 remain approximately the same throughout, her new 

 species do not tend to relapse at once into the parent 

 form, as our artificial varieties mostly do the moment 

 we relax the stringent regimen under which they have 

 been produced. 



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